Three quick tips – there will be more. 1. Understand Following on from my last post about the Audition that Went Wrong, sadly not a hit West-End Play but an opportunity that I didn’t play well, I moved on quickly to thinking about how to move forward. I decided that I needed a challenge. I knew that drying in the audition wasn’t related to any general ability to learn lines – I’m fine with that usually - I explain in the previous post what I think happened there. But it had happened and so our old constantly-waiting-in-the-wings pal Mr Nag poked his head out and mumbled, ‘Well yes but what if you’re just not up to it any more. You are getting on a bit you know.’ The challenge I set myself was to learn a monologue from scratch and record it. This would put Mr N back in his box and give me something positive and encouraging to work on. I enjoyed learning the role and finding a way into it. This is one of the joys of acting. Yes, learning lines can be a mechanical and t