Ben Power – Being in Voice

I Talk of Dreams

Flloyd Kennedy 30 April 2013 Theatre Ben Power, Facebook, Full Circle Theatre, iPhone App, Michael Croome, Queen Mab, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare, The Tempest

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on”, says Prospero, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I have a good friend, a very experienced Shakespearean actor, who would happily change that to “made of”, claiming that otherwise nobody understands what it means. I disagree, for more reasons than I care to enumerate. But I will say this, we […]

Did My Heart Love Till Now?

My students hear those words a lot these days, whenever I need to demonstrate a particular teaching point that involves placing my voice at the disposal of sounds that combine to make words that combine to make phrases, sentences – in other words, text. It makes a change from “the quality of mercy…” which is