caliban in the tempest

It's really easy to remember something if you want to. Think of all the songs you know all the lyrics to. You didn't have use any "tricks" to remember them; for the most part, it just happened. It's easy to remember things that you personally find fascinating, and Caliban's lines and character should definitely fall under that category.

That was the worst possible advice you could have given him! I know badmovieman90, and I was there at his debut performance . . . Not only did he NOT remember his lines, but he was booed off the stage by the entire audience - - and some audience members even pelted him with rocks and garbage as he left the auditorium crying, "do not torment me, prithee!" . . . badmovieman90 is now living alone on a tiny south sea island fetching firewood for Doug Henning’s understudy . . . for shame . . .


V. Jarndyce

fleance-1, you seem to be assuming that this guy DOES find Caliban fascinating. All he says is he got the role; he doesn't say he auditioned for it, which would presume it was a role he coveted and therefore had already studied. It may be he was merely assigened a role to which he is indifferent.
It is, as you suggest, possible to learn lyrics by osmosis, I did it myself but 1) these were REAL lyrics, the work of Cole Porter, Larry Hart, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz, Carolyn Leight, Dorothy Fields etc and 2) I admired them as lyrics which made it that much easier. To learn 'modern' lyrics requires not so much osmosis as a lack of brain cells.
To return to Caliban, I am neither a singer nor an actor with no aspirations to either yet I do love Shakespeare and committed many passages to memory just for the pleasure of saying them aloud when alone. In the case of a long speech I used to learn a couple of lines at a time, then build up to four lines, eight lines and so on, but if this guy has no real interest in of 'feel' for Caliban it's going to be uphill.