Training Actors' Voices

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Based on years of experience as a professional voice teacher, director, and researcher, this is a timely, essential, and vital reconsideration of voice training from intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives."

Phillip Zarrilli (Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group; Emeritus Professor, Exeter University) "Based on years of experience as a professional voice teacher, director, and researcher, this is a timely, essential, and vital reconsideration of voice training from intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives."

- Phillip Zarrilli, Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group; Emeritus Professor, Exeter University

"McAllister-Viel offers a rich example of how differing cultures of voice training may be productively "interwoven" in a conservatory setting. She has also created a long-needed conversation between the practical work of teaching voice skills and more theoretical explorations of the field. McAllister-Viel's valuable work models a shared vocabulary that will allow more productive conversations and collaborations between theorists and practitioners, thus leading to a richer learning experience for students."

- Erika Bailey, Voice and Speech Review

"Little has been written about an approach to developing an 'intercultural voice', of ways actors can and should engage with different cultural vocalities and vocalisms, and not sim-ply accents. Training Actors'Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach is thus a timely intervention in ways of critically examining the intercultural body and voice. [...] The book sits uniquely between an academic critique, a practitioner's handbook, and a personal recount. [...] One can certainly appreciate the importance and urgency of the issues that the author has presented, many of which she has researched and expounded on. The book then marks an important beginning for new conversations about intercultural approaches to voice and actor training today."

- Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal, 10.3, 2019