Hi,
I remember my lines by practicing one line at a time with the puppet movements sitting on my bed with the web cam. Then I play it back to see how the audience sees it. I make sure I can't see myself while I preform cause I watch me instead of the audience. Or do the same thing standing in my office.
I also carry my script with me in my purse and try to memorizes the lines. I code them one color for me and one for the puppet, I use different font in
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Ribbons the clown/ventriloquist

How do remember your lines?

Ribbons the clown
Robin Bremer
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Remembering your lines for yourself and a puppet is different than remembering them as an actor in a group. If you change a line it doesn't matter (and you will eventually change lines as you tweak the script).

I suggest using an outline method. Here are some that work.
1. Visually picture an image from the script for each segment of the script. I have a routine where Gladly the Grizzly meets gold hunters. I remember the story because I remember these pictures in my head.
Two men digging in yellow snow. (Who can forget that?)
Pistol.
Bear on a dinner table.
Candle.
Statue.

Those five images are all I need to remind me of the entire story where the bear sees two men outside his cave and invites them in for dinner. I warn him that the gold miners of California probably carried guns. They would hunt bear to take his fur and eat the meat. They could even use his fat like a candle. Then I tell the kids what to do in case they ever run into a bear in the mountains. Stand like a statue. There are a lot of funny lines in it and information, but that is the outline and the pictures remind me of it.

2. Another outline method is to put a single word on your practice sheet that reminds you of the whole routine. This is more for short term memory, but works great. From above I would remember SNOW GUN DINNER CANDLE STATUE. Again, for long term memory pictures work better.

3. Memorize each section in a different room in your house. Then when you perform you can picture yourself walking into each room and you will recall that part of the skit.

Your method is necessary for memorizing it, but you will want to try the outline method for recalling it from your memory. One more suggestion: When you play the video tape back watch it three different ways. Watch it with the sound and video together. Then watch it with just the sound to listen for voice distinction. Then watch it with no sound to check for lip control and lifelike movements of both you and the puppet. It really doesn't take that much extra and can teach you a lot.

I have a local kindergarten class that will usually let me practise a new show on them so I can see how long it lasts and see if the kids get all the jokes, at least for the age I'm aiming at.

When performing a full vent act...I have an outline prepared and placed near me during the show. I glance at the outline when I lost track of my script

Wanlu

I do tha same thing wanlu does... but most of the times I get out of the script because something funnier comes up with the croud...