TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry,Cicely
TI  - From word to play: a handbook for directors 
SN  - 9781849433624 (ebook) :
U1  - 792.028 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Oberon
KW  - Voice culture
KW  - Acting
KW  - Theater
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - The arts
KW  - thema
KW  - Theatre studies
KW  - Acting techniques
KW  - Theatre direction & production
KW  - Plays, playscripts
KW  - Speaking in public: advice & guides
KW  - Performing arts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Voice coach Cicely Berry looks closely at the interchange between sound and rhythm in language, showing how it can change the nuance of the meaning and take director, actor and audience further into the world of the play; "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
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