The Actor and the Text

Cicely Berry OBE

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Foreword by Trevor Nunn

Building on the specific exercises covered in her first book, Voice and the Actor, Cicely Berry relates the practicality of voice production to the challenges of a difficult text. And by getting inside the words we use – whether those of Shakespeare or our contemporaries – she shows how to release their energy and excitement for an audience.

The chapters in this book are:

• Part One: Attitudes to Voice and Text
• Sound and Meaning
• Heightened versus Naturalistic Text
• Part Two: Shakespeare – Setting out the Rules
• Metre and Rhythm
• Structures, Energy, Imagery and Sound
• Part Three: Shakespeare – the Practical Means
• Introduction to the Exercises
• Substance of the Text
• Metre and Energy
• Acting, Text and Style
• Further Point of Text
• Relating to Other Texts
• Part Four: Voice Work
• Preparation
• Further Voice Exercises
• Further Perspectives

Product Details

Paperback Revised Edition (2000)
Publisher: Virgin Books
ISBN: 0-86369-705-4

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