I just learned about this terrific idea that seems to be very close to Memorize Shakespeare, or at least to what some people think ScenePartner does. The company is called Ovation, and their product is Earprompter. Their slogan in “Speak Like A Pro In One Day”. The idea is that you purchase their hardware to […]
The audience is on your side. This is true in all performing arts. No one goes to any type of show hoping to see the performer fail. Every person in every seat in the theatre wants to see a great show. If they came to see a comedy, they are ready and waiting to laugh. […]
Some memorization strategies are so easy, you could do them in your sleep. What strategy is that? Sleeping: you need to sleep to get the most out of your study. To memorize your lines in Shakespeare, don’t stay up late. A lot of recent research is pointing to the fact that memories are encoded in […]
In our search for the best ways to memorize lines, there are certain principles that are well proven, and others that are unreliable. Today, we look at two memorization ideas that have been shown to work for everybody… so much that it’s almost common sense. Psych Research Memory research has long known about two major […]
“Oh, wait… I know this line. I can see it on the page… uh, the top of page 40. Argh, I can’t remember… How does it start?” I’ve heard so many actors say that sort of thing in rehearsal, and I can tell you exactly why it happens: memorizing from the page. In performance, you’ll […]
Proponents of the Palace Method of memorization say that it’s great for not only lists, but also for speeches. If your speech is a list of points to talk about, then that’s true. But if you have to deliver Shakespeare’s words in exactly the order he wrote them, it’s less than useless: it will harm […]
