From Word to Play

A Handbook for Directors: A Handbook for Directors

Cicely Berry (Author)

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Oberon Books Ltd
31 January 2007

Theatre Studies; Acting techniques; Public speaking guides

Series: Oberon Books

""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.

By: Cicely Berry (Author)
Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9781840026016
ISBN 10: 1840026014
Series: Oberon Books
Pages: 183
Publication Date: 31 January 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cicely Berry O.B.E is Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and is renowned in her work as a voice and text coach, having spent many years as an instructor at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.

Reviews for From Word to Play: A Handbook for Directors: A Handbook for Directors

'Cicely Berry has based her work on the conviction that while all is present in nature our natural instincts have been crippled from birth by many processes - by the conditioning, in fact, of a warped society. So an actor needs precise exercise and clear understanding to liberate his hidden possibilities and to learn the hard task of being true to the instinct of the moment ' - Peter Brook -- Peter Brook