> Finally, I think people grossly overestimate the difficulty of memorizing text. This resonates with me. I did a lot of amateur acting in my early 20s, and wh

> Finally, I think people grossly overestimate the difficulty of memorizing text. This resonates with me. I did a lot of amateur acting in my early 20s, and while I remember memorizing the text having been a lot of work early in the process, by the we were doing daily runs hardly anybody had any problem with memorizing the text. I remember it being kind of nice having memorized the lines though, as holding the script on stage during practice can be kind of annoying some times, so I tried to get the task of memorizing the lines done as early as possible.