I'm doing an acting examination in school in about two weeks and its important. It's grade 5 LAMDA (London Academy of Musuc, Drama and Arts - I think that's it) but the problem is me and my friends in the group (theres 5) hardly know our words and we just found out its in two weeks. For me it's a big problem, I have quite a lot of lines and I hardly know them. I was just wondering if anyone knew any technics to learn words fast.. I'm desprate!

Do you mean learning lines? I've found that when crunched for time, the best way to learn lines is repetition. Often, when I was short on time, I could never find someone to help me run lines... sooo... I bought one of those cheap tape recorder things and recorded the cues. That way, you can run lines with yourself. It sounds crazy, but it works. :)

Run, run, run your lines! That's the best way!

I don't know where to get a tape recorder but I'll try my best. I have to do it in a southern american accent too, but I'm not too bad at that.

Stores like Walmart and even some drugstores should have them. A small tape recorder should be relatively inexpensive...

And, it can help you learn stuff in school as well!

Good luck with the Southern accent, it's a fun one! :)

I do agree with the advice that has been given above, but would also like to add that if you practice your lines over and over in small segments, you will probably learn them faster than if you try repeating the whole section of lines that you are wanting to learn. Also, if you know how to type, typing out your lines is a visual that might also help you to learn them. When memorizing lines, it's good to use as many of the sensory stimuli as possible to learn them - such as: visual, auditory and emotional/situation (actually acting out what you would be doing in the play.) Using more than one way can help you to not get bogged down because of learning plateaus. Learning plateaus are where your mind has had enough of learning something in one way and has to rest in order to absorb the information before trying to learn something the same way again.

Problem - I live in Northern Ireland, we don't have Walmarts and I've never seen them in Drugstores.

And I love Southern Accent so much =]
Thanks for the info

And to Clough, lol yes, I know how to type... and thanks a lot for the info too =]