Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide
Published on 22. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-84842-971-0 (ISBN)
Description
This accessible, systematic guide will teach you how to memorise your lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them - helping you build confidence and focus, and reducing anxiety and stress around auditions, rehearsal and performance.
Inside, you'll find dozens of tips, tricks and techniques such as Memory Palaces, Mental Maps, Creative Memorisation, Visual Cues and many more, along with exercises and examples to illustrate how they work in practice. Discover how to harness these tools to strengthen your memory, and develop a personalised line-learning strategy that works for you and your acting process - one that is easier, faster and more enjoyable.
The Compact Guides are pocket-sized introductions for actors and theatremakers, each tackling a key topic in a clear and comprehensive way. Written by industry professionals with extensive hands-on experience of their subject, they provide you with maximum information in minimum time.
Inside, you'll find dozens of tips, tricks and techniques such as Memory Palaces, Mental Maps, Creative Memorisation, Visual Cues and many more, along with exercises and examples to illustrate how they work in practice. Discover how to harness these tools to strengthen your memory, and develop a personalised line-learning strategy that works for you and your acting process - one that is easier, faster and more enjoyable.
The Compact Guides are pocket-sized introductions for actors and theatremakers, each tackling a key topic in a clear and comprehensive way. Written by industry professionals with extensive hands-on experience of their subject, they provide you with maximum information in minimum time.
Reviews / Votes
'Very handy and easy-to-read... I highly recommend trying these creative ideas' * Drama Resource * 'There is plenty in this small and reasonably priced book for any actor to try out if they want to improve their speed of and confidence in learning lines for rehearsal, the film set or a last-minute audition or self-tape' * British Theatre Guide * 'Very useful and informative... compact and easy to read... sets out strategies for line learning at speed and, importantly, memorising... Each chapter is set out in short, clearly headed sections that are easy to identify... this book has introduced me to many very interesting and unusual ideas about line learning and memorising, many of which I would use, both as an actor and a teacher' * Word Matters (Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech & Drama) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 110 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-971-0 (9781848429710)
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Mark Channon
Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide
E-Book
04/2021
Nick Hern Books
€12.99
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Mark Channon is a trainer and coach in Memory and High Performance, working with a wide range of clients, from CEOs, presenters and students, to doctors, lawyers and actors. He became one of the world's first Grand Masters of Memory at the 1995 World Memory Championships. In 2019, he appeared as the on-air Memory Coach for Channel 4's Can I Improve My Memory?
He trained as an actor at Arts Educational Schools, London, and has worked in the West End, on national tours, throughout the UK, at the National Theatre and on television. Throughout his various careers in coaching, product leadership and consulting, acting has always remained a passion. Over recent years, Mark has worked with hundreds of actors in workshops on the act of learning lines, honing the strategies introduced in his book, Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide.
Mark's other books on memory improvement include Improve Your Memory and The Memory Workbook.
He trained as an actor at Arts Educational Schools, London, and has worked in the West End, on national tours, throughout the UK, at the National Theatre and on television. Throughout his various careers in coaching, product leadership and consulting, acting has always remained a passion. Over recent years, Mark has worked with hundreds of actors in workshops on the act of learning lines, honing the strategies introduced in his book, Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide.
Mark's other books on memory improvement include Improve Your Memory and The Memory Workbook.