Modern voice: working with actors on contemporary text

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"Lifting contemporary speech rhythms off the page can be a challenge for actors. Sometimes these rhythms are realistic, resembling or mirroring the speech patterns of real human beings, sometimes they are non-realistic, distorting speech patterns for particular effect... Provides an accessible approach for understanding speech rhythm but also presents an overview of different types and styles of contemporary text (including the rise of dramatic realism in England, America and Australia)." -- Ba…

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Full title :Modern voice : working with actors on contemporary text / Catherine Weate.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oberon Books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:292 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781849431712, 184943171X
oclc:ocn783153825
LC Classification:PN2061
Dewey Decimal:792.028

Part one: Vocal realism. Rhythm in speech -- Rhythm in writing -- Part two: Realistic drama. Journeys, demands and challenges -- Creating vocal characterisation -- Dealing with dialogue, revealing relationships -- Capturing the colloquial -- Voicing the verbatim -- Part three: Non-realistic drama. Demands and challenges -- Marrying the realistic with the non-realistic -- Expressing the absurd -- Talking in verse.