"Where the devil should he learn our language?"

Hey! I hope you've all been memorizing your lines!! Last Friday was the halfway mark for memorizing them. If you haven't managed to memorize up to half your lines, you need to get on it!

If you haven't marked your script yet, we strongly recommend you go through your script and markup all of your scenes. Go through and highlight anywhere in the script where you speak. This will make it easier for you to glance over your lines and recite them. While you're at it, scrawl out some boxes next to each of your lines, and check through each box after you've memorized the line. This can give you a much better understanding of which lines you need to work through more. Also be sure to underline the line directly before your line; these are your queues, and although you don't have to memorize them, you should be able to recognize them!

If you have a fairly large role with a lot of lines, why not go ahead and learn your last scene first? For any of you who have read or performed Shakespeare before, you know that most, if not all, conflict in the play is entirely resolved in the very last scene. This can make for a wonderfully climactic ending. Those who memorize their lines from the beginning to the end will come to this conclusively important scene near the end of the summer, leaving significantly less time for them to memorize and rehearse the scene!

Be sure to memorize your lines! This is the precious work of Shakespeare, and we mustn't be careless!