Monday, April 23, 2012

Memorizing Lines

I'm currently taking Gwen Morgan's Classical Lit Class and she has given us the option of performing a Greek play instead of taking her final for the semester.  The process has been a long one and has involved a lot of line memorizing. I personally don't have a ton of lines to memorize but thought I would try to apply the memory techniques from this class.  To be honest, the techniques have not worked for me at all-not for lines.  Since most of my lines are conversational, I memorize them based off the dialogue rather than a series of images in my head.  I also decided that I have to spout them too quickly to have time for walking through a memory theater.  I feel like this inability to memorize lines with a memory theater may be personal to me, I mean we have seen Parker and Levi spout Shakespeare lines using this technique.  Regardless, I have my lines memorized now and we're set to perform this Thursday.  It would be fantastic if any of you have time to come support us-we need 50 people in the audience to earn credit.  The play is a COMEDY called THE FROGS by Aristophanes and will be performed THURSDAY EVENING, 7:00 P.M. IN THE BLACKBOX THEATER. FREE FOR STUDENTS.  If you need a study break or have some free time please come stop by and support us!!

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