The Verbal Arts Workbook
About this book
Actors need to learn not only how to use their voice, but to use voice and language together. This book is about the expressive potential of language , and how actors can develop the verbal skills to release that potential. Written by tutors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and authors of the successful companion title, The Vocal Arts Work book + DVD , this book provides practical approaches to each aspect of verbal Sound : speech sounds and how to use them more expressively bring life and specificity to images when you speak focus on the most significant words and phrases in a speech or scene how rhythm is created and used in both verse and prose the structure or logic of languagePutting it all together using one classical and one modern sceneEach of the chapters consists of several Framework; Exploration; Exercises; Follow-up; Suggested Texts; and Further Reading, addressing the learner throughout, but also providing Teaching Tips which give specific notes for teachers.