VERBAL ACTION ONE

Welcome to our series of verbal action videos where we look at working with text and how rhythm, form, shaping our thoughts helps us into character. In these classes we will look at the following aspects of language in terms of logical and expressive functions.

Speech is action, no less than gesture and movement. Just as we study and analyze the nature of physical action, so we need to study and analyze the nature of verbal action.

Some major film, television and theatre companies employ regular voice consultants and dialogue coaches to guide actors through difficult moments, but such expert advice is not always available when we need to work effectively on our own. In part one we start with punctuation.

VERBAL ACTION TWO

In our second video we look at the use of the logical and psychological pause through examples of simple two column sentences and Shakespeare's King Lear.

VERBAL ACTION THREE

In our third video we explore how the use of stress can add vitality to what is being said and provide exercises to combine work on all three of the videos subjects together. Of course don’t use it to much, if everything is important, nothing is important.