The Audience Wants to Hear: Tips for Reading to an Audience
First Folio Technique for actors and performers
Comma–short breath
Period–full breath
Pencil in pauses
Underline
Use musical notations for lists. Vary pacing and pitch, emotional coloring.
Similar Posts
Creative Practice: Rhythm & Recurrence
Our most vital repetition is the breath and the heart beat. All art practice is based on repetition as we attain mastery. It’s practice, right? Music, dance, theater, visual art, and writing. These are called “disciplines” of course, because they require discipline. Repetition is how we get there. As musicians we practice scales. As artists…
Twitter Haiku Practice, by Susan J. Tweit
Susan Tweit’s currently working on two book proposals. One is on the theme of using-nature-to-fire-your-creativity. She’s using her haiku practice as an exercise. The post below tells us more about why she writes haiku on Twitter. Read more of Susan’s haiku on Riehlife-Poem-of-the-day. Read more about Susan’s work below. Janet _________________ WHY POST HAIKU ON…
“Treasury of Twisted Tales,” by Linda Jo Smith (“Miss Linda”)
Linda Jo Smith is no stranger to Riehlife readers. Not only does she provide creative community programs for the Schlafly library in my neighborhood. She’s also an accomplished poet and storyteller. Linda Jo Smith, fondly called “Miss Linda,” is a teller of the tales we have all come to know and love – with a…
Soyinka’s “The Lion and The Jewel” at Washington University’s Edison Theatre St. Louis for Five April Performances
Wole Soyinka, playwright, “The Lion and the Jewel” The Lion And The Jewel opens Friday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.at Washington University: Edison Theatre St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri. “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka is diirected by Ron Himes and presented by the Washington University Performing Arts Department. VENUE Edison Theatre St. Louis…
Part 2: Life with the Written Word–Ernest Dempsey’s Story from Pakistan
Yesterday Riehlife readers were treated to Part 1 of Ernest Dempsey’s “Life with the Written Word.” When you read part one you’ll see Ernest’ bio and the story of our four year internet friendship since 2007. –JGR ______________________ PART 2: Life with the Written Word – Ernest Dempsey’s Story from Pakistan JGR: Your home is…
Civil War. Dixie:How a Ten Dollar Bill Became a Song
How a Ten Dollar Bill Became a Song From: “Old time songs and poems,”written by Edith LaFrancis “Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton, Simmon seed, and sandy bottom. Look away! Look away! Look away, Dixie Land!” Daniel Decatur Emmett, a performer in Bryant’s Minstrels, in New York City, laid down his…