Alphabet Theatre

Temi's Quilt It’s always an honor to know you have made a difference! Thank you, Temi, for sharing the story of your quilt. I am looking forward to many more shows together!  Have a story about your time with Alphabet Theatre/Mayfield Theatre you’d like to share? Post in the comments - always looking for something to share with our friends and supporters!  Here’s the story behind Temi’s Quilt: This is a quilt that I asked my grandma to make for me for my birthday last year. She had previously made a shirt quilt for my brother of his old basketball jerseys that no longer fit. After seeing how well his turned out I immediately thought of my drawer full of MYT/AT shirts that I wanted to up-cycle. So, I made a plan so that when I had done nine shows I could give my grandmother all nine of the shirts and she would make me one! I even drew a picture depicting which order I wanted the shirts to be in. So in the upper left-hand corner of the quilt there is a 3 x 3 grid all the shows I

Memorization:  Imagination, Motivation, Comprehension, and Repetition Learning lines is more than rote memorization. It has to be, if you really want to convey the meaning and the message in a scene or play.  So here’s a few tips to move you from memorization to a deeper understanding of the words on the page. 1.  Listen.  Either working with a partner, or by recording and playing back a scene (voice memos on my phone have really expanded my abilities here!), listen closely to what the other characters are saying.  When you listen, form pictures in your head or think of images that you can use to keep a storyboard of sorts of the scene.  When you really listen to what others are saying, you get a deeper understanding, and your responses 2. Write out your big blocks of text, plus the lead in lines and next characters lines.  Then write them again.  And Again.  As you're writing imagine what you are writing as a comic book. If you are still having blanks, you're taking