We have had a couple of DM's on line learning - so here is how I approach it xxx Let me be honest about line learning, because most of us were never really taught how to do it. We were handed a script and told to know it by Thursday. So we do what feels like learning. We read the page over and over, we say the words back until they sound about right, and we call that memorising. Then the tape lands with a short deadline, the panic starts before we have acted a single truthful moment, and half the prep time that should have gone into the actual work gets swallowed by trying to hold the words in place. I want to give you a different way in. Not a trick, and not a hack. A way of learning lines that is grounded in how memory actually works, and that happens to be exactly how experienced, working actors already do it. Some of this will feel like it turns the whole thing upside down. Good. That is usually where the real lightbulb is. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 Here is the finding that changed how I think about all of this. Two researchers, Helga and Tony Noice, spent decades studying how professional actors hold hours of dialogue in their heads. What they found is that skilled actors do not sit and memorise the words at all. When they tested actors against ordinary people on plain memory tasks, like learning a passage from an encyclopaedia, the actors were no better than anyone else. Their memory was never the superpower. Their method was. What actors actually do is chase meaning. They break a scene into beats, into a chain of intentions, and they work out why the character says each thing, what they want, and what they are doing to the other person in the room. The Noices called this active experiencing. And here is the part that matters for you. When you learn a scene that way, the words stop being a list to hold and become the natural result of the thought underneath them. You are not remembering lines. You are remembering what you want, and the words arrive to go and get it.

Hi everyone. So glad to be on board. Maybe meet some of you tonight.