From word to play : a textual handbook for actors and directors / Cicely Berry.
By: Berry, Cicely
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BookPublisher: London : Oberon, 2008Description: vii, 183 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781840026016; 1840026014.Subject(s): Voice culture | Acting | Theater -- Production and directionDDC classification: 792.028 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"There is a mystery in every play that is written, no matter whether classical and poetic or modern and demotic, and it is the sound and the rhythm of the writing which take us there."
Cicely Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Voice Director, has been working alongside some of Britain's greatest actors and directors for over fifty years and is widely regarded as one of the most significant voice teachers in the world.
From Word to Play draws on Cicely's extensive experience of working with theatre companies in Britain and throughout the world. It is her manifesto for a return to the words themselves: for moving away from an over-conceptualised, over-literal view of language and rediscovering the meaning in its sounds and rhythms. At the heart of this book is a concise, practical guide for directors in rehearsal, setting out work strategies that help bring out both the shape and the details within all kinds of text - whether verse or prose, seventeenth-century or contemporary.
With a Foreword by Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the RSC.
Includes index.
Section One: The work and its roots -- Section Two: The work itself -- Section Three: Voice and space.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Section 1 The Work and its Roots (p. 9)
- Chapter 1 Hearing Language (p. 10)
- Chapter 2 Laying out the Work (p. 24)
- Section 2 The Work Itself (p. 35)
- Chapter 3 Introductory workshop (p. 36)
- Chapter 4 Group Work on Form and Structure (p. 71)
- Chapter 5 Displacement Strategies (p. 105)
- Section 3 Voice and Space (p. 139)
- Chapter 6 Working The Space (p. 140)
- Chapter 7 Vocal Preparation (p. 161)
- Appendix King Lear In Retrospect (p. 171)
- Index (p. 181)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Cicely Frances Berry was born in Berkhamsted, England on May 17, 1926. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London in the 1940s. After graduating, she was hired by the school as a voice instructor. She became the Royal Shakespeare Company's first voice director in 1969. While there, she also taught at Nós do Morro and in various British prisons. She directed productions of King Lear at theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. She wrote several books including Voice and the Actor, The Actor and the Text, and Working Shakespeare. She died on October 15, 2018 at the age of 92.(Bowker Author Biography)