The Actor Speaks

Voice and the Performer

Patsy Rodenburg

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781350027145
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this revised edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what leading professional actors must achieve every night on stage, Patsy Rodenburg's celebrated work as one of the world's foremost voice and acting coaches is fully revealed in this thoughtful and inspirational book about acting. Written for the training and working actor, Rodenburg's book brings to life a wide range of exercises and methods to release the actor's voice, allowing the reader to perform every night, reaching the pitch, passion and vocal intensity that the best roles require. Revisited and revised for this new edition, The Actor Speaks is the ultimate voice book for actors.

Index

abdominal muscles here; and breathing exercises, here–here, here–here, here–here; locating tension in, here–here; warm-up exercises, here

abseiling: and speaking here, here, here–here

abuse, vocal see vocal damage

abused voices, playing here–here

accents and dialects here, here; American, here, heren, here–here, here–here; and audiences, here, here, here, here; Australian, heren; and clarity of speech, here; Italian, here–here; and large spaces, here; learning, here–here; Received Pronunciation (RP), here, here–here, here–here, here; regional, here, here, here, here, here; and resonance, here; upper class, here, here, here; urban v. rural, here; Welsh, here

acoustics here–here; and audiences, here, here; of churches and halls, here–here; ‘dead’, here, here, here, here, here, here–here; in Greek theatres, here; in open-air theatres, here; of rehearsal rooms, here–here, of set designs, here–here, here–here, here; testing, here–here, here–here

adolescents’ voices here–here

advice, taking here

affricates here

ageing and voices here–here, here–here

aggressive behaviour here; at auditions, here

aggressive shouting here, here, here

air-conditioning here

air travel here

alcohol: and the voice here, here, here–here

alcoholics, playing here, here, here

American accents here, heren, here, here–here

analysis, text see directors; text

anger, expressing here–here, here

antitheses here–here

Antony and Cleopatra here

arm stretches he...