Saturday, 2 November 2013

Cicely Berry Excersise


 
In today's lesson Adrian led a exercise that is used by Cicely Berry.



Cicely was born May 17th, 1926. She is the voice director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and also is world known for her work as a voice coach. She does workshops that are successful all over the globe including Korea, Russia, Uk and Asia.




The exercise we had to do was taking 5/6 lines from our script of The Tempest and working out where the pauses would be. Every time its a new thought this would count as a pause so we put a line. We then had to say a line in one position of the room, walk to a new place and then say the next.

The section of speech I was using was:

WRITE FROM THE SCRIPT WHAT I SAID

I feel this task was helpful for making me slow my speaking down. Before this lesson I was saying this section of the play very fast and pausing in the wrong places meaning it was hard to understand what I was saying. Some characters found that they were always moving to high up places which showed there character was loud or a important person. But I felt I didnt move too much and kept quite low down. My section of speech was a moment in which I am trying to calm someone down and reassure them and I feel this would be most affective on the other persons level. So this is why I didn't stand on the staging.


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