Speech and DramaSteinerBooks, 2007 M10 24 - 418 pages 19 lectures, Dornach, April 10, 1921 and September 5-23, 1924 (CW 282) This course was designed for students and professionals in the stage arts and given in the Section for the Arts of Speech and Music School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies. This volume is a translation from German of Sprachgestaltung und Dramatische Kunst (GA 282). |
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... it impossible to limit the audience to actors alone , as had been at first intended . No sooner , in response to urgent entreaty , had a few exceptions been made , than a whole stream of people began asking to be allowed to take part . 7 I.
... audience may however have helped to give them a certain large and universal quality and afforded occasion for some of the humorous and topical allusions . Although the shorthand report of the lectures was im- perfect , there was an ...
... audience . Maeterlinck's L'Intruse . The actor and the dramatic critic . page 22nd September , 1924. 379 Lecture 19. THE FORMATIVE ACTIVITY OF THE WORD . The whole sound - system of speech expresses the rela- tion of the several organs ...
... audience were limited to professional actors and those who , having the necessary qualifications , are hoping to become such . We should then probably have been a comparatively small circle ; and we should have been able , working ...
... audience . ) The speaker must feel : When I come to a vowel , I am coming near to man himself ; but directly I come to a consonant , it is things I am catching at , things that are outside . If the artist once has this feeling , then it ...