Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft!
Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by Linklater students, already selling over 45,000 copies. Emphasizing the use of imagery and imagination in developing the art of the voice, this book incorporates exercises developed over the past three decades that have stood the test of repetition, reliably producing results when practiced conscientiously and with understanding.
The logical progression of exercises is designed for professional actors, student actors, teachers of acting, teachers of voice and speech, and anyone interested in vocal expression.
The emphasis of the work is on the removal of the physical and psychological blocks that inhibit the human vocal instrument and its objective is a voice in direct contact with emotional impulse, shaped by the intellect but not restricted by it.
Freeing the Natural Voice presents a lucid and multi-leveled account of the human voice in the context of performance - expressive theatrical performance and the performance of everyday communication.
“A radical breakaway from the old formal methods…an invaluable new resource…essential.”
—Educational Theatre Journal
“The best and only work of its kind for vocal training.”
—Education Theatre News