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.

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.

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!!

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!

What a great technique! THank you for sharing

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

It's beautiful Thanks for sharing ❤️

Awesome technique..

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

This sounds brilliant, will certainly be trying it soon! Thank you Andrew and team ❤

Thanx love your videos 🙂it was interesting to watch

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!

Got an audition on Monday, I'll be trying this later & putting it to the test!.. Makes sense in my head, 👍😎👍

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS HELPED ALOT! i have an upcoming school play and im King Alonso (its a tempest play). i never had a good memory in learning my lines but this helped alot! i definetly recomed yall to try it out!

See I’ve tried doing this way if memorizing, it did not work as fast as I wanted it to, though it is a good process, I do recommend it over other kinds of processes. What I do is (if a monologue) read the sentence or the first two sentences, read it 18 times, then do it in your head, and then do the very next one, same process but then say both sentences without reading it and see if it’s memorized then move on, super flexible, and you can make it to whatever works best for you. For scenes and scripts, I just read it from line of each character

Very novel technique - perhaps more for monologues than interactive dialogue. Another suggestion: working from last lines backward to first lines. Each time you are working toward higher confidence, as you have the end and intermediate repeated so many times by the time you get to the first lines.

Sir always keep making videos❤

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

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

Number 5 is great! Love using this one

Wow I’ve never seen this before can’t wait to try it!

I seen so many people rave about this technique. I will have to look into it.

Will be trying this with my masonic ritual - lots of very strange words in there... thanks ⚒️

Brilliant mate. I heard about this before but seeing you demonstrate it is what really got me hooked on it. I have a monologue (Tom Merritt from Spoon River) to perform for a Showcase I'm doing this week. I used this technique and it's absolutely brilliant - it works like a charm. A lot easier than the rote technique. Keep the videos coming. Cheers Kerwin

I've been doing that (and other things) for years! It does help! ;)

That's a good, novel technique.

AWESOME! DEFINITELY USING IT!

I'm going to try this!

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

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

Excellent tip. Thanks so much.

I'm going to try this!! thank you!!

This is a fantastic and useful tool and I have used it for Monologues but just stumbling a bit with how it works for scenes where there are for e.g. 2/3 other actors in the scene before your line.

Omg..fantastic technique! Practicing already. Thanks

Thank you!!

Omggg! Thankyou this helped so much!

Thank you

Very good technique

Hi Andrew! The technique really sounds exciting. Also wondering whether this will work for other languages too.. :). Anywy will chk it out and revert..tnx!

Thank you.

This is amazing info! Thank you

Does this technique work for learning dialogues as well? Or does it work better for monologues?

Do u have any videos on how to act realistically and how to get better at it?

Obviously it’s sort of up to opinion, but I’ve been doing this previously with capitalized and uncapitalized letters. But I see you’re doing all caps here. I wonder if I should do all caps instead? Btw, what confirmed this technique as a proven great one for me, is Allison Janney said in a Q&A that this is the technique she uses, and what she used to remember all the difficult long Sorkin dialogue on The West Wing…where she won all her Emmy’s ;) so, good enough for her, good enough for me! Thanks for the breakdown!

Hey - how would you annotate someone else's line for scenes?

Yeeeessss love this

When you are doing this when you practice do you walk around when you're saying your lines? or do you have like an object when you're running a lines? or do you just sit down and say your lines? what do you do that best helps memorizing it while you're going through the lines, if that makes any sense.

what is the origin of the company name (kinda curious)

It would be better if Stagemilk gives credit to the book that creates this technique. Stagemilk did not invent this technique. Someone else did - give credit where credit is due!!!

Doesn't work for me at all :(