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In this episode Robert, Angie Herzberg, Lou Saucell and Alex Bingley continue discussing the Alexander Technique within Actor Training.
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In this episode Robert discusses the place of the Alexander Technique in the British Drama School with Alexander Teachers Angie Herzberg and Lou Saucell and voice teacher from Lamda, Italia Conti and the Drama Centre, Alex Bingley. After more than forty years as a fundamental underpinning for the training of students across all the courses that Lamda offered the technique was abruptly cut from the training this year under the leadership of the new director Sarah Frankcom.
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In this episode Robert talks to Alan Stanford, Artistic Director of PICT Pittsburgh's Classic Theatre about his training at the Guildhall, King Lear, Beckett and other things besides. Robert can be contacted at [email protected]
Below are the direct links to the digital offerings that Alan Stanford mentioned on the podcast today from PICT Classic Theatre.
Free Friday Webinars:
http://www.picttheatre.org/pict-educates/
Our upcoming webinars will cover Theatre Superstitions (Friday, December 4th) and Charles Dickens (December 11). Our current registration links, as well as links to replays of our archived webinars are all available on our PICT Educates page.
A Christmas Carol - A PICT Radio Drama:
http://www.picttheatre.org/events/a-christmas-carol/
Featuring a cast of Pittsburgh's finest vocal talent, this new adaptation by Alan Stanford will stream December 16-January 3 on Broadway OnDemand. Tickets will be on sale in the next two weeks.
Any contribution to the cost of making these podcasts will be most gratefully received.
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In this episode Lizzie and Robert discuss the work of Trish Arnold, teaching in lockdown and the potential politics of transformation. Lizzie can be contacted at [email protected] and if you would like to talk to Robert : [email protected]
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In this episode we continue the conversation with David covering topics including how the Central MA in Voice Studeies evolved and developed and discuss why the Voice faculty of British Drama Schools was so white. If you want to contact Robert about the podcast please do: [email protected]
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In the first of two episodes David discusses his journey towards taking over the Voice teacher training course at The Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1980s.
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The second part of a conversation with James Kemp. Amongst other things we discuss how Anthony Hopkins marks up his script after reading it several hundred times.
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In this episode we explore in detail one of the four pillars of the Drama Centre's pedagogy, the Yat Malmgren application of the work of Laban and Carpenter into actor training as Character Analysis, its place at the Drama Centre and Lamda and how that history is drawing to a close.
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In this episode Robert reads extracts from Rosina Filippi's book Hints to Speakers and Players and discusses her relationship with the important teacher and actor Herman Vezin in order to gain some insight into teaching within the institutions of Edwardian actor training.
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