Abstract

A few weeks before her death, Kristin Linklater gave what was to be her final presentation, online because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, entitled: ‘Methods of Performing Arts and the Pioneer Practices in This Discipline’. In this speech presented at a Forum of Theatre, Film and TV at the Shanghai Theatre Academy on training young performers, she emphasizes the need to ‘train the person who will become the actor before we can train the actor’ and she explores the necessity for truthful performance which the art of acting demands even more now that many performances are so closely observed through the lens and microphone. This text of this short speech, and Kristin’s contribution to the development of voice practice, is contextualised through a personal tribute from Joan Mills, the Voice Director of the Centre for Performance Research, who knew Kristin for over thirty years and invited her many times to the Giving Voice international festival of voice in performance.

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