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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer

by Patsy Rodenburg

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A practical voice workshop for stage performers

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A practical voice workshop for stage performers

Patsy Rodenburg organizes this acting guide around the voice as a working tool in performance. Its workshop-based coverage moves through breath and relaxation, range and projection, and the demands of communicating with fellow actors. It also addresses the relationship between singing and acting, adapting vocal work to venues of different sizes, and meeting the distinct requirements posed by different scripts. The scope makes it useful as a reference across rehearsal-room concerns as well as performance conditions, with attention to both foundational technique and the practical adjustments actors make from one production context to another.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Beginning actors building foundational voice skills
  • Working performers refining projection, range, and vocal flexibility
  • Actors seeking guidance for singing, script work, and different stage sizes

Themes

Voice techniqueBreath and relaxationVocal projection and rangeActor communicationSinging and acting

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Book overview

In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems every performer faces onstage: breath and relaxation; vocal range and power; communication with other actors; singing and acting simultaneously; working on different sized stages and in both large and small auditoriums; approaching the vocal demands of different kinds of scripts. This is the final word on the actor's voice and it's destined to become the classic work on the subject for some time to come.

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