Improving Your Performance of a Last Minute Monologue
Since you don’t have the luxury of time to live with the character of a last minute monologue, tap into your five senses to help create a bubble of reality you can step into for your audition.
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Memorization Technique for a Last Minute Monologue
Now that you have your monologue, how do you memorize it quickly? Getting tongue-tied and tripped up with lines on a monologue you’ve only just memorized is not unusual – your brain is just running faster than your mouth. Here is a seven-step process for getting off book quickly. Break your monologue up into chunks. …
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Avoid Last Minute Monologues at All Costs
While preparing a monologue at the last minute is never an ideal scenario, it sometimes happens. This month I’ll be talking about how to prep a monologue at the last minute.
Finding a Last Minute Monologue
A monologue selected at the last minute is never going to be as emotionally resonant as one you’ve had time to live with for awhile, but last minute monologues happen. Give yourself a little grace for whatever the reason is that you’ve found yourself in this situation, and move forward with confidence now that you have a strategy.
Why Am I Saying This? Part IV
All month, we will be answering the question, “Why am I saying this?” The one thing I work on with students most is knowing why they are saying a line. Rather than memorize lines, we learn lines, we learn why a character is saying the words they have been given.
Why Am I Saying This? Part III
All month, we will be answering the question, “Why am I saying this?” The one thing I work on with students most is knowing why they are saying a line. Rather than memorize lines, we learn lines, we learn why a character is saying the words they have been given.
Why Am I Saying This? Part II
All month, we will be answering the question, “Why am I saying this?” The one thing I work on with students most is knowing why they are saying a line. Rather than memorize lines, we learn lines, we learn why a character is saying the words they have been given.
Why Am I Saying This? Part I
All month, we will be answering the question, “Why am I saying this?” The one thing I work on with students most is knowing why they are saying a line. Rather than memorize lines, we learn lines, we learn why a character is saying the words they have been given.
Should I Major in Theatre? (Part V)
All this month we will be exploring questions, concerns, and recommendations for high school juniors and seniors looking down the runway at high school graduation and all that lies beyond.
Should I Major in Theatre? (Part IV)
All this month we will be exploring questions, concerns, and recommendations for high school juniors and seniors looking down the runway at high school graduation and all that lies beyond.