The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice / Edition 1

by Patsy Rodenburg

Overview

In The Right to Speak, renowned voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg teaches you how to meet any speaking challenge with total self-assurance. Rodenburg has trained thousands of actors, singers, media personalities, lawyers, politicians, business people, teachers and students in the art of using their voice fully and expressively without fear. She has taught them how to breathe, how to support their breath, how to stretch their voice to meet any vocal effort and how to have total confidence in whatever they say—"the right to speak."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878300556
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/1993
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Patsy Rodenburg, OBE, is Professor of Text and Poetry at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK after serving as Head of Voice from 1981–2016. In 1981 she was appointed the Voice Coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company, responsible for the works of the Company in London, and in 1990 was appointed the first Head of Voice at the Royal National Theatre where she ran the department until 2006.

She has worked with theatre companies across the UK including Theatre de Complicitè, Shared Experience, Cheek by Jowl and the Royal Court, having coached numerous West End and Broadway productions. Patsy has also worked at many major theatre companies all over the world, including Stratford Festival Theatre (Ontario, Canada), Kabuki Theatre (Japan), Indian National Theatre (Mumbai, Japan), Lithuania National Drama Theatre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Royal Dramatic Theatre (Stockholm, Sweden), The Market Theatre (Johannesburg, South Africa), Beijing Opera (China) and Verbier Festival (Verbier, Switzerland). She has been teaching storytelling to teachers and corporate leaders since 1976.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ian McKellen
Preface
Introduction

Part One: The Right to Speak
1. Declaring Your Vocal Rights
2. 'God Doesn't Mind a Bum Note'
3. The Roots of Habits
5 Settling into Habits
6. Deep Habits and Release

Part Two: Working with the Voice
7. An Owner's Manual of the Voice
8. The Voice Workout
9. Speech and Phonetics
10. Working Further with the Voice

Index

Editorial Reviews

Patsy Rodenburg wants to free your voice so that you can express yourself fully and honestly in public. Her revelation in The Right to Speak is that sound, like sense, can respond to the heart of our inner selves.” —Sir Ian McKellen

“Patsy is one of the handful of people in the world who understand that the use of the voice by actors and public speakers engages the heart, the mind and the body. There is no teacher, in my experience, who brings all of these together with such wisdom and patience.” —Sir Richard Eyre

“Patsy Rodenburg is one the best teachers I've known: she is a constant source of strength and inspiration.” —Sir Anthony Sher

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