I've been thinking about learing lines -
The thing to do when you're at home learning your lines...whether it's for a monologue or a scene, is to learn the lines by rote.

Just like you're memorizing the fifty states or the states and capitals. And then when someone asks you to say all fifty, you just rattle them off. There's no inflection, no meaning behind the words you're saying, just the words. Like reading the phone book....

There's actually a fun exercise to do with your lines where you say your lines in all kinds of crazy inflections, your pitch going up and down in places that it wouldn't normally go up and down...this is all to help you not get in a rut with the way the lines are said in performance or rehearsal.

Remember - no class this coming Sunday, the 22nd.
Work on your short scenes and your monologues.
Thanks! Jeri Lynn