Brains Are Interesting.

One of the things that I'm having to do to prepare for Spirit Theatre is learn several pages of dialogue. The show has several monologues where I tell about the history of people contacting the spirits. Unlike many of the stories I tell I can't really wing these at all. The language needs to be precise and it wasn't all written by me.

I tried a new technique which has been working fairly well. I picked up an MP3 player in China that works really well with my Linux operating system. As I was playing around with it I had an idea. I recorded a reading of one of the scenes and transferred it to the MP3 player. Now I listen to the scene and try to repeat the dialogue as I hear it. It becomes a weird disconnected process where I listen with part of my brain and speak with another. I suppose it's what a language translator does when they are listening and translating.

After a few rounds of this I'm finding that I am learning the dialogue. I've not looked at the book for several days, but the information is sticking.

If you have to learn text try this technique. It's weird, but it might work.

Back to the script...