domusaltera

The TL;DR is that this is more about some dude wanting to fill time with vague ideas about learning lines that never get smarter than "repeat them a lot" than any actually useful advice.

I've done a ton of line learning for plays and musicals and I can tell you there is one actually useful system that never fails. I call it the first letter system. You could learn an entire play with this in very little time. You just reduce your text down to just the first letters. So, for example, Hamlet's "To be or not to be" 259 word soliloquy would look like this:

T B, O N T B, T I T Q: W 'T N I T M T S T S A A O O F, O T T A A A S O T A B O E T. T D, T S, N M; A B A S T S W E T H-A A T T N S T F I H T: 'T A C D T B W'D. T D, T S; T S, P T D. A, T'S T R: F I T S O D W D M C, W W H S O T M C, M G U P. T'S T R T M C O S L L. F W W B T W A S O T, T'O'S W, T P M'S C, T P O D'D L, T L'S D, T I O O, A T S T P M O T'U T, W H H M H Q M W A B B? W W F B, T G A S U A W L, B T T D O S A D, T U'D C, F W B N T R, P T W, A M U R B T I W H T F T O T W K N O? T C D M C O U A, A T T N H O R I S O'E W T P C O T, A E O G P A M
W T R T C T A A L T N O A.

Then you just play a game of how many letters can you guess in a row. Gamifying the process is genius because it doesn't feel like a boring chore. Also the brain naturally uses anchors for memory so each letter becomes an anchor and you'll retain so much more that way without the stress of endless repetition.

Pretty soon you'll be able to do the whole speech word perfect just looking at the first letters and then all you have to do is make the game about trying to say whole sentences just by looking at the first letter of each sentence. It's a truly incredible system and now you know it without having to listen to some guy being vague for 10 minutes.

So the last time Cuba got nervous about the intentions of the US we ended up with the Cuban missile crisis. What's different this time?