Actor and the Text

Name: Actor and the Text
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ISBN: 9781557831385

ISBN-10: 1557831386

ISBN-13: 9781557831385

Edition: Revised

Authors: Cicely Berry, Trevor Nunn

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These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece - in any arena, at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard - accurately and with true emotional range. Never again will one be accused of simply "reading a prepared statement." Berry's exercises to develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control will literally help everyone breathe easier when confronting the printed page.

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Attitudes to Voice and Text



Sound and Meaning



Attitudes to voice



The practical means



Heightened versus Naturalistic Text



Shakespeare - Setting out the Rules



Metre and Rhythm



Structures, Energy, Imagery and Sound



Energy through the text



Antithesis



Substance of the word



Discovery and movement of thought



Nature of the image, its logic, and its inquiry into nature



Argument and emotion



Word games and patterns



Structure of speeches



Shakespeare - the Practical Means



Introduction to the Exercises



Substance of the Text



Sounds: vowels and consonants



Nearing the language: substance of text



Language fabric



Metre and Energy



Metre



Energy through the text



Subversion - or making language your own



Acting, Text and Style



Further Points of Text



Prose



Heightened music



Scene structures



Recap on speech structures



Sonnets



Relating to Other Texts



Jacobean text



Restoration text



Formal modern text



Modern text



Voice Work



Preparation



Finding the space



Using poetry



Cadence and note



Further Voice Exercises


Further Perspectives


Index of Quotations


Quotes by Subject