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... continuous and organized one . Mainly they like comedies or one - act plays , and they compete in the drama festivals throughout the country . In number they run into thousands . Their smaller counterparts are the occasional amateur ...
... continuous and organized one . Mainly they like comedies or one - act plays , and they compete in the drama festivals throughout the country . In number they run into thousands . Their smaller counterparts are the occasional amateur ...
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... continuously in work then he brings his worries into the theatre with him . And , in English theatre at least , his fellow - actors or actresses are not always his team - mates ; they are his competitors in a grim fight for survival ...
... continuously in work then he brings his worries into the theatre with him . And , in English theatre at least , his fellow - actors or actresses are not always his team - mates ; they are his competitors in a grim fight for survival ...
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... continuous tone with variations in the shape of your mouth if you do the following exercises : Exercise I With the mouth open make the following sounds in succession : OO ( as in pool ) OO ( as in book ) OH ( as in home ) AW ( as in raw ) ...
... continuous tone with variations in the shape of your mouth if you do the following exercises : Exercise I With the mouth open make the following sounds in succession : OO ( as in pool ) OO ( as in book ) OH ( as in home ) AW ( as in raw ) ...
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... continuous " ( e.g. z or v ) . Apart from these two kinds there are the nasal consonants ( m , n , ng ) , the trilled “ r ” , and the sound " 1 " , which stands by itself as a " lateral " consonant for the breath , is not interrupted by ...
... continuous " ( e.g. z or v ) . Apart from these two kinds there are the nasal consonants ( m , n , ng ) , the trilled “ r ” , and the sound " 1 " , which stands by itself as a " lateral " consonant for the breath , is not interrupted by ...
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... here is a last exercise in articulation . It comes from Patience by Gilbert and Sulli- van , whose works are pretty well one continuous challenge to the actor who aspires to good diction . Pace 55 TECHNIQUE - ARTICULATION AND DELIVERY.
... here is a last exercise in articulation . It comes from Patience by Gilbert and Sulli- van , whose works are pretty well one continuous challenge to the actor who aspires to good diction . Pace 55 TECHNIQUE - ARTICULATION AND DELIVERY.
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Page 48 - I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly : thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest...
Page 37 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing...
Page 61 - You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 52 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Page 44 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay ? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell ? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep ; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam ; Where the salt weed sways in the stream ; Where the...
Page 42 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf!
Page 42 - I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand...
Page 53 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls...
Page 40 - Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold ! gold ! gold ! gold...
Page 62 - And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday ? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
References to this book
Drama Bibliography: A Short-title Guide to Extended Reading in Dramatic Art ... No preview available - 1971 |
Drama Bibliography: A Short-title Guide to Extended Reading in Dramatic Art ... No preview available - 1971 |