blog 9

9. How are your rehearsals for your monologue going? What have you done to memorize? How much progress have you made? How well have you incorporated action and blocking into your monologue to date?

Rehearsals for the monologue is a bit harder than rehearsals were for the scenes we did.  The monologue is about as long as my scene, but instead of only saying half of the lines, I now have to say all of them.  The first time I read through the script, I was very confused.  After reading through the script about 10 more times, I am only slightly confused.  So far, I have really only read through the script in class to memorize the words.  I plan to record myself reading the script in an audio file, then listening to the file until I have it memorized.  Because I work two jobs (that totals up to working 40.5 hours a week) and attend school full time, I unfortunately have to use my time that I’m not at work or school to do things that require full attention like class readings and writing papers.  When I had to memorize an eight minute speech last semester, I recorded an audio file on my phone, then listened to that file on repeat while I worked at Jewel, bringing in carts.  Hearing your own voice for hours at a time is enough to drive you bat-shit-insane, but it did work out.  In the end, I memorized the speech, and gave a great presentation on eminent domain solutions.  I plan to do the same for this monologue.  Fortunately for me, this monologue will not be eight minutes, and should not take as long to memorize as did my speech.  As of this moment, I have not incorporated action and blocking into my monologue very well, however I do plan to improve on it with time.