Speech as Active Communication 3

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Předmět zajišťuje Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy

Contents

Systematic work from class to class and intensive preparations at home on a selected text or texts.

Linked to Speech as Active Communication 2 - dependent on talent.

Learning outcomes

• Discovering one's own speaking voice, and how to work with it.
• Discovering one's spoken English, how to work with it.
• Learning to listen and. hear
• Learning to speak with sense and logic.
• Learning to speak expressively and with expression .
• Learning to speak with someone (and with oneself).

The voicework is based on selected texts in English.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Functional listening skills, and ability for functional, speech creation.

• Communicativeness.
• Interest.
• Basic talent and education.

Linked to Speech Propedeutics 2

Literature

Berry, Cicely: Voice and the Actor. New York: Wiley Publishing, 1973.

Donnellan, Declan: The Actor and the Target. London: Nick Hern Books 2005.

Gutekunst, Christina and Gillet, John: Voice into Acting. London: Bloomsbury 2014.

Houseman, Barbara: Finding your Voice, London: Nick Hern Books 2002.

Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy and technologizing of the word. London, New York: Routledge 2012.

Rodenburg, Patsy: The Actor Speaks. London: Methuen Drama 1997.

Rodenburg, Patsy: The Need for Words: Voice and the Text. London: Methuen Drama 2005.

Vyskočil, Ivan and company: (Inter)acting with the inner partner. (Edited by Michal Čunderle and Alex Komlosi), translated by Alexander Komlosi. Praha: Brkola 2011.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on: class participation, attendance, homework (75%), final presentations, and discussions on recommended readings.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Authorial Acting in English (M.A.) (Required subjects)