How to Learn Lines FAST

I just got sides for an audition and thought I’d try this technique out. I literally just learned two pages of dialogue, word perfect, in 3 minutes. I usually struggle with memorization. This is a game changer for me 😍

We always recommend this technique to our young performers - it's great! Another tip - if you keep getting stuck on the same letter each time, add a symbol or small picture to try and remind you of the word. This is particularly useful if you have a lot of alliteration in a line, for example.

I have been using this technique now since 2019 and it is highly effective. Now that I have been doing it for a while, I have been able to include other helpful things. Whether it is a monologue or whole script, break up the lines into beats, aka changes in thought/tactic to get what you want. This does two things: 1)it draws on the practice of "chunking": breaking things down into smaller chunks helps improve the chances of recalling it later; and 2) it also allows you to practice remembering your various tactics/motivations in a scene. Breaking your script and monologue up in this way is super helpful to memorizing bit by bit everyday or very quickly, and helps you play with portions of the text. If your text is in verse, chunking also helps you keep the lines together, thus allowing you to remember the rhythm/cadence of what you are saying. I hope anyone else reading this finds that addition helpful; it has definitely helped me greatly.

Thank you so much. I have my techniques, but this is going to streamline it so much more. For my standup comedy, I create a theme word for each segment of my set, to assist in smooth seques, then I reduce the sections to one letter to remind me of the theme. Very similar. I am so glad that I found StageMilk and greatly appreciate your generourous spirit!

I can see that this would work. When I forget someone's name (and they aren't standing in front of me), I slowing go through the alphabet and mentally make the sound of the letter while picturing their face. 95% of the time, the person's name will pop into my head the moment I say the first letter of their name. I think the same concept is going on here. By the way, 00:31 is the best intro ever.

Awesome! Using the technique straight away as I’m in a monologue workshop at the moment. Hope it’ll work as well as it does work you! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent tip. Thanks so much.

It's beautiful Thanks for sharing ❤️

AWESOME! DEFINITELY USING IT!

I was sceptical at first as I’ve always struggled with learning lines, especially for a monologue but I just memorised a 16 line monologue for an audition with a new agency and it was so much easier and far less stress than I usually put myself through.

I've probably used this countless times learning lines. It's even helped me during exams writing essays and stuff. Thank you so much!!

Omg..fantastic technique! Practicing already. Thanks

I love this techniquem when i used to learn at schoool i would go to highlight only key words so this is the techniques i needed... thank you for your deep originality

I do something similar with hieroglyphics and symbols for words lol. Thanks for the vid!

Thanks. It makes sense. Cant wait to try it!

Awesome technique..

Thank you so much! I spent an hour only on my whole script, it was 9 pages but thank youuu

What a great technique! THank you for sharing

New subscriber definitely will be trying this technique! Thank you!!

Omg, now I have a superpower! insane how much it works