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... . And so on ... while I racked my brains . Was there anybody who'd been at rehearsals sufficiently often to know Keith Smith's part and moves fairly well ? He was playing Petrov , the likeable , comical middle 13 ONE WAY TO START.
... . And so on ... while I racked my brains . Was there anybody who'd been at rehearsals sufficiently often to know Keith Smith's part and moves fairly well ? He was playing Petrov , the likeable , comical middle 13 ONE WAY TO START.
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... move about and at the same time speak clearly and loudly you need to develop your normal breathing until you have all the breath you need available without conscious effort . What happens when we breathe ? In inspiration ( breath- ing ...
... move about and at the same time speak clearly and loudly you need to develop your normal breathing until you have all the breath you need available without conscious effort . What happens when we breathe ? In inspiration ( breath- ing ...
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... move them to the sides ; breathe out as you lower them slowly to your sides . 3. ( a ) Breathe in through the nose counting mentally to five ; breath out through nose counting mentally five . ( b ) Breathe in through the nose counting ...
... move them to the sides ; breathe out as you lower them slowly to your sides . 3. ( a ) Breathe in through the nose counting mentally to five ; breath out through nose counting mentally five . ( b ) Breathe in through the nose counting ...
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... the small passage escapes downwards with pronounced sibilance . For " sh " and " zy " the tongue is farther back and the lips move forward a little . Barbara Bingham in the part of Shaw's Saint Joan , 48 ACTING FOR YOU.
... the small passage escapes downwards with pronounced sibilance . For " sh " and " zy " the tongue is farther back and the lips move forward a little . Barbara Bingham in the part of Shaw's Saint Joan , 48 ACTING FOR YOU.
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... move , a flash of the eyes perhaps , a clasping and un- clasping of the hand , a despairing turn away of the head or a combination of many subtle little moves and expres- sions that no writer could adequately describe . These things are ...
... move , a flash of the eyes perhaps , a clasping and un- clasping of the hand , a despairing turn away of the head or a combination of many subtle little moves and expres- sions that no writer could adequately describe . These things are ...
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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 |