Preeminent voice teacher, actor and director Kristin Linklater goes beyond the techniques in her classic text, Freeing the natural voice, to a passionate exploration of the words of William Shakespeare. Using copious examples from the canon, including chapters on Shakespeare's r…
" ... Heirich addresses some common problem areas of the voice-teaching world: breath management, voice projection, resonance building, singing high notes, 'breaks' in the vocal range, excess muscle tension in the wrong places, and the relevance of overall poise to vocal output.…
"Part One: contains all the tools you need to learn a current Neutral Standard English Accent; neutral in terms of class, race, age, gender, occupation and social background. Part Two: introduces you to the following most useful Upper and Upper-Middle Class varieties of Standard…
"Part One: contains all the tools you need to learn a current Neutral Standard English Accent; neutral in terms of class, race, age, gender, occupation and social background. Part Two: introduces you to the following most useful Upper and Upper-Middle Class varieties of Standard…
The essential handbook for every actor. In every drama school, in every English-speaking country, students from all over the world have to learn a Standard English Accent, and voice and drama tutors have to teach it. But what exactly is it? How many varieties are there? And whic…
"Part One: contains all the tools you need to learn a current Neutral Standard English Accent; neutral in terms of class, race, age, gender, occupation and social background. Part Two: introduces you to the following most useful Upper and Upper-Middle Class varieties of Standard…
Modern Voice: Working with Actors on Contemporary Text has been designed to follow on from Catherine's previous book, Classic Voice: Working with Actors on Vocal Style, focusing on the less defined demands within contemporary drama. Lifting contemporary speech rhythms off the pa…
"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... Provide…
An exploration of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity, Multivocality focuses on transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, religious contexts, and found voices and lost ones.
