Drawing on Catherine Weate's extensive experience as a voice coach, Classic Voice provides a comprehensive preparation for the vocal demands within classical texts. It includes warm-up ideas, exercises to experiment with sound, word and rhythm and detailed workshop plans using specially selected extracts from classic plays. Always practical, this book will supply directors, lecturers, teachers, trainers and coaches with the tools they need to easily integrate vocal work into their rehearsals, classes or seminars. Greek Tragedy, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama and Restoration Comedy, three theatrical styles in western theatre history which challenge actors vocally, are given a particular focus.

Catherine Weate / B.A. / Dip.Ed. / L.S.D.A. / F.R.S.A. has been coaching voice for over twenty years. She has been Head of Voice at Rose Bruford College, Head of Voice and Vice Principal at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Head of Examinations at LAMDA.