The Need for Words: Voice and the Text (Performance Books)

Patsy Rodenburg

ISBN 10: 0413675009 / ISBN 13: 9780413675002

Published by Methuen Drama, 1993

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0413675009I4N01

Synopsis:

Words are power. They are alive and liberating. Yet so many people have lost their connection to spoken language. People fear metaphor, distrust eloquence, undervalue the ability to speak or to read aloud. Patsy Rodenburg takes up how people speak, what is spoken and the impact of spoken words in this companion volume to her "The Right to Speak". Part one sifts through all the blocks that deny people access to language and shows how to release them. Part two contains a series of exercises, "Working with the Text". The language of Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, contemporary prose and numerous other text examples are used to prompt the reader to find his or her own unique need for words. This book reaches out to performers, writers, students teachers, business people, politicians and to everybody who must speak in public.

About the Author: Patsy Rodenburg teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and is currently Head of the Voice Department at London's Royal National Theatre, where she has worked with such actors as Ian McKellen, Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Need for Words: Voice and the Text (...
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket