Metadata
- Author: The Mit Press Reader
- Full Title:: How Actors Remember Their Lines
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Theatre,
- URL:: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-actors-remember-their-lines/
- Finished date:: 2024-05-31
Highlights
Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their attention on the meaning of the material and associating it with information they already know. Actors study the script, trying to understand their character and seeing how their lines relate to that character. (View Highlight)