Verse and Prose
or Small Groups by arrangement
Course Content
Learn to read aloud and speak poetry with understanding and expression.
You can explore language, style, rhythm and rhyme and discover how poets and writers use carefully chosen words to create atmosphere and mood to convey their message or story.
You can create a linked or themed programme for performance, for fun or for an exam.
You will learn Vocal and Performance Skills
Alternatively you could study particular poets or writers.
Course Content
The course will be wide ranging and vary according to preferences and choices but is likely to include:
Voice Work
• Using Consonants and Vowels
• Clarity
• Expression and Inflexion
• Breathing
• Projection
• Understanding Text
• Revealing Subtext
• Rhythms
• Rhyme
Exploration of Texts
• Content and context
• Poet or writer’s intention
• Use of language, devices etc to create mood and atmosphere
• Plots
• Characters
• Subject matter
• Comparisons
• Period and Genre and Style
• Writer’s other work
• Discussion
• Performance