The Actor and the Text

Cicely Berry

Virgin, 1992 - Acting - 303 pages

'The Actor & the Text' brings together the elements of articulation and verbal clarity in a practical way. Building on specific exercises, it relates the practicality of voice production to the challenge of a difficult text.

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A guide to exploring the written and spoken styles of theatre and language and how to approach them as a performer. Includes warm-up exercises and rehearsal techniques.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional ...

Contents

• by Trevor Nunn: 7
• Attitudes to Voice and Text: 14
• Heightened versus Naturalistic Text: 32

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Actor and the Text; The Applause acting series; Theatre studies
• Author: Cicely Berry
• Edition: 2, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Virgin, 1992
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 18, 2007
• ISBN: 0863697054, 9780863697050
• Length: 303 pages