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‘Without craft, an actor is a liability’: how row over teaching standards is causing a rift in UK theatre industry
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 3 March - 08:00
Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods
“O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”
With these words from Hamlet , Shakespeare let the world know what he thought about those whose diction was not up to scratch. Good drama required speech to be given “trippingly on the tongue”, he believed – and theatre directors and producers have followed his lead for centuries.
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