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More Ealing Workshop Notes

26/1/2019

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Amanda Whittington - Finding Your Voice Session

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Notes:
  • "Colour" your voice
  • Pay attention to the style and the voice will come out
  • Express emotion without tension
  • Think of a constant air flow, not separate sounds
  • Shouting is "calling with attitude" (i.e not straining)
  • Put a "h" in front of a consonant to shout, e.g. "(h)eff off!"
  • The body talks, not the throat or the voice
  • Your "personal" space is commonly perceived to be approximately an arm's length around you: Imagine it as the whole theatre, to get "Volume without the push".  Then see the audience as part of your personal space.

Practice/warm-up:
  • Adopt a "cocky/bored" attitude - hum - tap your body, up the left side and down the right
  • Release the back of your tongue; move your tongue around your teeth
  • Slack jaw - tongue behind front teeth - push forward
  • "I speak here", i.e. from the diaphragm
  • brrr (vroom!) or th/zh
  • shi / se / fe / the
  • Tongue forward to lips and recite a text

​*  Cicely Berry book - "Finding your voice"

Stephen Unwin - Directing Session

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Notes:
  • A balance between "directing" and "consulting"
  • Shaping... Pulling together
  • A good play has "musical structure"
  • The work of the director is not visible to the audience
  • A director has to be different "characters": stern, patient, cajoling, etc.
  • Directing is about adapting to what's presented, not attempting to recreate what's in your head
  • Use your ears... What did the writer "hear"?
  • Bring out the human-ness of the story being told
  • Be interested in what's in front of you... Open-minded
  • Help the actors to act well
  • Understand/observe bodily tensions
  • Directing is about "conducting the rhythm of the event"; shaping the "rhythm" of the play
  • Be able to explain
  • Use your eyes and ears: KNOW / LOOK / LISTEN / ANALYSE... only then SPEAK
  • Ask questions during read-throughs
  • Encourage actors to look at each other's eyes
  • Correcting wrong word stress: what are you actually saying?

Mike Bartlett
Directing is:
  • Imagining
  • Managing

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Moira Cima

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27/10/2022 12:36:04 am

Grateful for sharing thiss

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