FINDING YOUR VOICE FOR STAGE AND MIKE

Theatre spaces are generally getting smaller – much of the work now is in studio theatres.  In a small space it's surprisingly easy to be inaudible - the danger is that you relax too much and lose the precise focus of the space.

The lower vocal levels required by film, radio, and television can also betray you into thinking the voice unimportant, whereas what is all-important is that truth to  the inner life of the character is heard in the voice.

Reducing the size of voice for media can lead to problems when you go back into theatre, when finding the size can result in loss of truth.

Until fairly recently drama school voice-work has tended to concentrate on the demands of theatre, with a hidden implication that voice on screen is unimportant.

This is what we have been looking at in one of the workshops I've been developing with members at the Actors Centre.  It is called “Vocal Truth for Stage and Screen” and looks at the difficulties actors face with these transitions.


What is all-important is that truth to the inner life of the character is heard in the voice