Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach [Paperback]

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one?

Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors  the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world.

This updated edition contains: a new chapter on vocal embodiment of actions, new findings from neuroscience supporting the approach, more exercises, warm-up routines for training, rehearsal and performance, and a completely new glossary of terms.

The authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can:

- Respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will
- Fully express language in content and form
- Communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience
- Transform to adapt to different roles
- Connect to a variety of audiences and spaces

Featuring 55 illustrations by German artist, Dany Heck,Voice into Actingis an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques or an alternative approach to harmonize with the actor's process.

John Gillettis the author ofActing on Impulse - Reclaiming the Stanislavski Approach(Methuen Drama, 2007); the second extended edition,Acting Stanislavski - A practical guide to Stanislavski's approach and legacy(Bloomsbury, 2014); and co-author with Christina Gutekunst ofVoice into Acting - Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach(Bloomsbury 2014, and now in a second edition, 2021). He has also written articles on acting and the preface for a new edition of Stanislavski'sCreating a Rollã’