The Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company offers instruction and exercises for speaking and communicating effectively

Voice and the Actor

Berry, Cicely

Humor & Entertainment

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company offers instruction and exercises for speaking and communicating effectively

Voice and the actor

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Harrap

"Speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life." Cicely Berry has based her work on the conviction that while all is present in nature our natural instincts have been crippled from birth by many processes--by the conditioning, in fact, of a warped society. So an actor needs precise exercise and clear understanding to liberate his hidden possibilities and to learn the hard task of being true to the 'instinct of the moment'. As her book points out with remarkable persuasiveness 'technique' as such is a myth, for there is no such thing as a correct voice. There is no right way--there are only a million wrong ways, which are wrong because they deny what would otherwise be affirmed. Wrong uses of the voice are those that constipate feeling, constrict activity, blunt expression, level out idiosyncrasy, generalize experience, coarsen intimacy. These blockages are multiple and are the results of acquired habits that have become part of the automatic vocal equipment; unnoticed and unknown, they stand between the actor's voice as it is and as it could be and they will not vanish by themselves. So the work is not how to do but how to permit: how, in fact, to set the voice free. And since life in the voice springs from emotion, drab and uninspiring technical exercises can never be sufficient. Cicely Berry never departs from the fundamental recognition that speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life.. After a voice session with her I have known actors speak not of the voice but of a growth in human relationships. This is a high tribute to work that is the opposite of specialization. Cicely Berry sees the voice teacher as involved in all of a theatre's work. She would never try to separate the sound of words from their living context. For her the two are inseparable. --from Peter Brook's foreword to Voice and the Actor

Voice & the Actor

Virgin Pub

The Actor and His Text is a direct extension of Cicely Berry's first book, Voice and the Actor. It sets out to apply the methods of voice production directly and practically to the speaking of text. Specifically, it addresses the problem of how to infuse life and meaning into words that are first encountered on the printed page. While the greater part of her book is about the speaking of Shakespeare, Cicely Berry also includes the speaking of modern plays, such as those of Davis Rudkin and Edward Bond. She expands, too, on the exercises given in Voice and the Actor which help to develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control.

The Actor and His Text

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Virgin Books

Discusses attitudes toward voice and text, looks at meter, rhythm, imagery, and sound in Shakespeare, and suggests acting exercises and voice preparation

Scribner

Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world famous for her voice teaching. Text in Action contains the insights she has gleaned from 50 years of working with actors and directors across the globe. Here she draws on her group work to emphasis how actors and directors can use the rehersal process to heighten their collective awareness of language.This book is essential for all actors and directors, covers both classical and modern writing. It includes pratical exercises to maximise understanding and communication of text.

Text in Action

'The Actor &amp; the Text' brings together the elements of articulation and verbal clarity in a practical way. Building on specific exercises, it relates the practicality of voice production to the challenge of a difficult text.

The Actor and the Text

Business & Money

Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Society is world famous for her voice teaching. Anxiety about how we speak prevents many of us from expressing ourselves well. In this classic handbook, Cicely Berry tackles the reasons for this anxiety and explains her practical exercises for relaxation and breathing, clarity of diction and vocal flexibility - everything that you need to achieve good speech.

Your Voice and How to Use It

These words of Cicely Berry the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece ä in any arena at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard ä 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.

The Actor and the Text (Applause Acting Series)

Applause

(Applause Books). How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private school to the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare's language which arouses our emotions: feelings of anger and sorrow, of passion and laughter. This landmark five-part video series gives voice to Shakespeare's most beloved and widely known speeches and sonnets, performed by a powerhouse ensemble of American and British actors, as they delve into the structure, meaning and power of Shakespeare's language. Each DVD explores a different aspect of Shakespeare's work.

Working Shakespeare: The Ultimate Actor's Workshop (Applause Books)

Glenn Young Books

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Voice and the Actor

Voice and the actor

Voice & the Actor

The Actor and His Text

The Actor and His Text

Text in Action

The Actor and the Text

Your Voice and How to Use It

The Actor and the Text (Applause Acting Series)

Working Shakespeare: The Ultimate Actor's Workshop (Applause Books)