The Actor and His Text - Hardcover

Berry, Cicely

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684189372 ISBN 13: 9780684189376

Publisher: Scribner, 1988

Synopsis

Discusses attitudes toward voice and text, looks at meter, rhythm, imagery, and sound in Shakespeare, and suggests acting exercises and voice preparation

About this title

About the Author:

Cicely Berry is the Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and is involved in all its productions. Over the years she has worked with actors such as Antony Sher, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack and Jonathan Pryce. She has worked extensively with actors and acting companies abroad, particularly in the United States, China, India, Australia and Europe. Cicely Berry is also deeply involved with education work in Britain, taking workshops in schools and colleges. She sees her most important work in this area as that done with secondary school teachers, aimed at finding ways of teaching Shakespeare which make the plays more immediate and alive. She is patron of both Leicester and Northumberland Youth Theatres. She also works in prisons. In 1985, Cicely Berry directed a production of Hamlet for the National theatre Education Department which toured successfully in colleges and arts centres throughout Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0684189372
• ISBN 13: 9780684189376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285