Quotes From Cicely Berry
From Where Words Prevail:
When going into a workshop, my primary objective is to get people to feel something in the language… to make the words active. We live in a literal age: ‘this is what this means, that is what that means…’ instead of discovering how you feel by speaking it. People understand why singers have to train to develop the breath and range of the voice. An actor has to develop their own voice, their personal voice, their individual voice. We are drawn by a voice which has a vibration; which resonates. What is so exciting about Shakespeare is that when a character finds an image, it is always to do with where that character is living at that moment.From Voice and the Actor:
I have always felt that poetry is quite the best material to use because the demands it makes are very particular and quite subtle, yet its extravagance encourages you to do extravagant things which are not untrue.Read more about this topic: Cicely Berry
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