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Day 102 - Thursday 25th June 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak


Lockdown

Learning Lines part 1

This is an occupational hazard for actors and one that people not in "the biz" often ask about - "How did you learn all those lines?" they marvel.

And honestly sometimes I don't know.

If something is well written, it is definitely easier to learn.  Believe it or not, Shakespeare is relatively easy to commit to memory for this very reason - it flows.

The biggest thing I've ever had to learn was something I wrote myself.  In 2017 I took my solo show "Awake" to the Edinburgh and Sydney Fringe festivals.  It was 45 solid minutes of me talking.  That's a lot of lines.  And it was particuarly irritating when I got any lines wrong because I'd written them!

If you'd like to read about my adventures, I wrote a couple of blogs about them: 

Awake: Part 1 - The Road to Edinburgh 



Awake // Miranda Colmans — THE SICK OF THE FRINGE

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