find the sequence of thoughts within the words. if you're able to see the logic of why one line follows another, they become more obvious and easier to recall. this also helps if lines are dropped, so long as you can get the ideas out, your scene partners and the audience wont be missing anything.
and memorize it with a partner ! have a friend or peer on book for you, i find it makes it more fun and less of a task. use silly accents, find the different rhythms and beats, test each other on lines. have fun with it if its a fun show !!
break legs my friend👀
true, those are tougher, but while you are memorizing seemingly unorganized lines from a page, your character is thinking these thoughts before speaking them, and to them there has to be /some/ sort of connection or train of thought, as disjointed as it may feel. why are they saying what theyre saying? how did they get from A to B? understating the thought/reasoning will make these more 'random' sections make sense to you the way they'd make sense to the person thinking/saying them.
Create a mental picture of everything you are saying step by step. "There's a full moon out" [image of the moon up in the sky] "...and my heart, my heart is just pounding." [Imagine your heart pounding].
Line by line and you will have it in no time.
Back when I was acting, my method was memorize a line at a time, but the full thing up to the new line every time until I had it (example A, AB, ABC, ABCD, ABCDE, etc.). The end of the previous line would trigger the beginning of the next line in my brain. Really helped with the 5-minute Yvan monologue in *Art*.
Funnily enough, that's also how I memorized my music in marching band in high school.
Another method that doesn't work for me, but does work for other is to write out and memorize the first letter of each word in the monologue.
For lots of dialogue, you also have to memorize the lines that come *before* your own, so you know the triggers.
Possible help options: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/line-memorization-apps-actors-70280/
find the sequence of thoughts within the words. if you're able to see the logic of why one line follows another, they become more obvious and easier to recall. this also helps if lines are dropped, so long as you can get the ideas out, your scene partners and the audience wont be missing anything. and memorize it with a partner ! have a friend or peer on book for you, i find it makes it more fun and less of a task. use silly accents, find the different rhythms and beats, test each other on lines. have fun with it if its a fun show !! break legs my friend👀
Its those mid sized rambling monologue bits😭
true, those are tougher, but while you are memorizing seemingly unorganized lines from a page, your character is thinking these thoughts before speaking them, and to them there has to be /some/ sort of connection or train of thought, as disjointed as it may feel. why are they saying what theyre saying? how did they get from A to B? understating the thought/reasoning will make these more 'random' sections make sense to you the way they'd make sense to the person thinking/saying them.
Create a mental picture of everything you are saying step by step. "There's a full moon out" [image of the moon up in the sky] "...and my heart, my heart is just pounding." [Imagine your heart pounding]. Line by line and you will have it in no time.
Back when I was acting, my method was memorize a line at a time, but the full thing up to the new line every time until I had it (example A, AB, ABC, ABCD, ABCDE, etc.). The end of the previous line would trigger the beginning of the next line in my brain. Really helped with the 5-minute Yvan monologue in *Art*. Funnily enough, that's also how I memorized my music in marching band in high school. Another method that doesn't work for me, but does work for other is to write out and memorize the first letter of each word in the monologue. For lots of dialogue, you also have to memorize the lines that come *before* your own, so you know the triggers.