Research Catalog

Title

The actor speaks : voice and the performer / Patsy Rodenburg.

Author

Rodenburg, Patsy, 1953-

Publication

London : Methuen Drama, 1997.

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Details

Description

xii, 388 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In The Actor Speaks Patsy Rodenburg sets down at last her complete knowledge about voice work for the stage to serve every actor's needs. Through a seven-step process, which can be repeated again and again by both beginner and professional performers, she takes the actor through an intensive voice and speech workshop tackling the vexing problems faced in rehearsal and on stage: breathing and relaxation; vocal range and power; communication with other actors and the audience; integrating movement, singing and speaking; deciphering and animating a text; adjusting voice to different size stages and auditoria; working in mediums beyond the stage; sustaining a performance through an entire evening and a long run; and identifying and overcoming the countless potential problems that face every performer who works in front of an audience."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Voice culture
• Acting
• Voice Training

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Actor first speaks -- Extending the voice into resonance, range and speech -- Voice and speech meet word and text -- Voice and text meet the rehearsal -- Voice, text and rehearsal meet the stage -- Production meets an audience -- Re-creating the work again and again

ISBN

0413700208

OCLC

• 36895492
• SCSB-11536677

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library