• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Relaxation, Release and Alignment
• Chapter 2: Breath and Voice - Connect
• Chapter 3: Breath and Voice - Supply and Support
• Chapter 4: Resonance and Range
• Chapter 5: Articulation and Muscularity Appendices (vocal warm-up, vocal health, sample curricula, professional histories, bibliography) Bibliography Index.
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"Refreshing and imaginative, this book teaches through enhanced awareness and instructs through clear and specific exercises." Cicely Berry A practical course for actors and other professional voice-users to achieve clarity and expressivity with the voice. Setting out the fundamental principles of voice training, the book provides structured and informed methods for developing vocal power, range and flexibility. At the heart of the book are practical projects with exercises which enable you to: - connect your breath with your voice - meet the demands of your performance - use your voice expressively through fully controlling pitch and range Each chapter consists of an introductory framework; explorations; exercises; follow-up work; suggested texts and further reading altogether offering a unique, student-centred approach not found in other voice books. This revised edition speaks more directly to the actor, rather than the voice teacher, through revised terminology and descriptions, updated references, additional appendices on health and other issues related to trends in contemporary drama and questions of equality, diversity and inclusion with respect to vocabulary and suggested texts. Includes forewords by Cicely Berry and Fiona Shaw.
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• Part 1: The Physical Actions of Speech 1. Experiencing Flow 2. Experiencing Articulators 3. Experiencing Shaped Flow 4. Experiencing Obstructed Flow
• Part 2: The Possibilities in Language 5. Experiencing Obstruents in Language 6. Experiencing the Empty Charts - Consonants 7. Experiencing Language 8. Experiencing the Empty Chart - Vowels
• Part 3: The Transcription of Speech 9. Experiencing Phones, Phonemes, and Phonetic Symbols (oh my!) 10. Experiencing the Consonant Symbols 11. Experiencing the Vowel Symbols 12. Experiencing Narrow Phonetic Transcription
• Part 4: Speechwork is Acting Work 13. Experiencing Oral Posture 14. Experiencing Linguistic Detail 15. Experiencing Strategy 16. Experiencing Your Acting Choices.
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Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities. This book provides a progression of playful, practical exercises designed to build a truly universal set of speech skills that any actor can use, such as the ability to identify, discern, and execute every sound found in every language on the planet. By observing different types of flow through the vocal tract, vocal tract anatomy, articulator actions, and how these components can be combined, readers will understand and recreate the process by which language is learned. They will then be introduced to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and will practice using the IPA for narrow transcription of speech sounds. The book also offers both an intellectual and physical understanding of oral posture and how it contributes to vocal characterization and accent work. This approach to speech training is descriptive, giving students a wide and diverse set of speech sounds and skills to utilize for any character in any project, and it establishes a foundation for future accent study and acquisition. Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is an excellent resource for teachers and students of speech and actor training, as well as aspiring actors looking to diversify their speech skills.
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• Foreword by Judi Dench Introduction Stage One - The Actor First Speaks Stage Two - Extending the Voice into Resonance, Range and Speech Stage Three - Voice and Speech Meet Word and Text Stage Four - Voice and Text Meet the Rehearsal Stage Five - Voice, Text and Rehearsal Meet the Stage Stage Six - The Production Meets an Audience Stage Seven Recreating the Work Again and Again Index.
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From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this revised edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what leading professional actors must achieve every night on stage, Patsy Rodenburg's celebrated work as one of the world's foremost voice and acting coaches is fully revealed in this thoughtful and inspirational book about acting. Written for the training and working actor, Rodenburg's book brings to life a wide range of exercises and methods to release the actor's voice, allowing the reader to perform every night, reaching the pitch, passion and vocal intensity that the best roles require. Revisited and revised for this new edition, The Actor Speaks is the ultimate voice book for actors.
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• Relaxation, release, alignment
• Breath and voice, connect
• Breach and voice, supply and support
• Resonance and range
• Articulation and muscularity.

Freeing and developing the voice is at the centre of actor training. This workbook and DVD will help you develop the skills to use your voice so that it fully and accurately represents your intentions, just as the writer uses her words or the dancer his body.

A practical handbook for student actors on how to cope with text, character and situation, by the author of "Finding Your Voice.".
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• Before You Start
• Body Work
• Breathing and Support Breathing into Sound: Supporting the Voice
• Releasing the Sound Filling Out the Sound: Resonance
• Extending the Sound: Range Shaping the Sound: Articulation
• Appendix: Warm-Up and Trouble-Shooter Section.
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This is a self-help manual for actors who want to train and develop their voice. Opening with advice on how to use the book and how to prepare our bodies, the author then takes us step-by-step through the constituent elements that make up the voice and the sounds we make with it. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, then sets out the sequence of relevant exercises, accompanied by simple diagrams, and ends with a summary of what has been learned.
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1. The richly experimental verse and the complex structure of the play are analysed in depth, and a strong case is made for this to be the first play to be performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.'Daniell's edition is a hefty piece of serious scholarship that makes a genuine contribution.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey'This is a stimulating new look at a play which is too often exhibited in a critical museum.' Paul Dean, English Studies.
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Following on from the widely acclaimed The Actor and the Text - which was addressed directly to the actor - Text in Action is drawn from Cicely's group work experiences, encompassing the viewpoint of the director as well. To begin with, the author explores language from a cultural and personal perspective. In these days of management jargon and internet technology are we losing touch with the ability to communicate fully?' Is the deeper imaginative world being left unexpressed? The main body of the book contains detailed, practical exercises for actors and directors during the rehearsal process. All exercises will be tied to specific scenes, leading to a fuller exploration of the rext. Text In Action analyses the imagery of plays, speech structures, the physicality of language and emphasises the importance of finding a collective voice. Cicely's guidance on the matter of voice will help actors find relationships and situations through the text in a unique way, in order to make it more dynamic and creative.
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• How the voice works
• Why the voice does not work
• The spine: the support of breath
• Breathing: the source of sound
• The touch of sound
• Vibrations that amplify the initial sound
• The channel for sound
• The channel resonators
• Releasing the voice from the body
• The middle of the voice
• The nasal resonator
• Range
• The skull resonators
• Breathing power
• The center
• Articulation
• Words
• Texts
• Observations and opinions on voice and acting.

Describes the mechanics of the voice and obstacles of spontaneous, effective vocal expression and details exercises for developing and strengthening the voice as a human and actor's instrument.