What’s the best way to memorize quickly? Perhaps you have 12 pages of sides for a callback tomorrow morning, or you have to memorize a two-hour play in a week because someone just dropped out, or maybe you signed up for a casting director pay-to-meet, and at the last minute decided to memorize a really overdone monologue from “Mean Girls.” (Just me?)
You have no idea how you are going to learn the lines this quickly. Maybe you’ve tried putting the script under your pillow hoping to learn the lines by osmosis (doesn’t work), or you’ve tried having your four roommates sing your lines to you at three in the morning (totally creepy). You’ve tried everything, and it doesn’t work. What do you do? The old method of covering your lines with your hand never seems to work, as the lines always feel like they are on the surface, and not ingrained—sort of like cramming for a math test—and will be out the window the second you finish.
I’ve tried many different ways over the years, and I found these are by far the quickest ways to memorize lines.
1. The Rehearsal 2 app. This is hands down my favorite way for actors to learn lines. It’s the scene partner that
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