Voice - Text Work | Consonants in 'Hamlet' | National Theatre

Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice at the National Theatre, works through the "To be or not to be" from 'Hamlet' speech with actor Ferdinand Kingsley.
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[@Lovecraft243]

The actor really understands the text, it's lovely to watch him unearth little nuggets of detail I'd never before considered. Thanks again.

[@lisar9425]

One expects the text to develop during a vocal session. But attend to his own speech. His own expression developed nuance, range and elasticity-a good voice coach is magic.

[@serenawalia9199]

Why is he so beautiful to listen to 💜

[@pathofclouds85]

Great discovering this after the Sandman! Perchance to Dream 😃😃

[@NationalTheatre]

You are very welcome. Make sure to look at the other voice videos with Jeannette.

[@BJrobin86]

I really enjoyed this actor's reading. And it is interesting to go that deep in voicing aspect details..

[@englishpinkish6835]

Oh my god. It is fantastic, I couldn’t stop watching it. Incredible

[@AliaAir]

These videos are so valuable thank you

[@KittyxGrimm]

Great actor and lovely man. Loo Brealey is one lucky lady indeed!

[@jairtzinio]

i love this man

[@mikekeenan820]

Not just what we say But how that matters the most Rhythm doth reveal

[@abbysands9510]

I notice when I was whispering the sounds the muscle of my face really started to hurt. It takes a lot of control to whisper the sounds and yet still be clear.

[@蔡奇燁-u9c]

I am drawn to the actor's voice

[@Lou4464]

Beautiful

[@secondjulia]

BABY HOB! Guess he went to some weird places after Dream left him hanging in the eighties. _The pangs of being dumped_ Oh boy yeah does he know it. Anyone else here after falling so far down the Sandman rabbit hole they ran out of interviews to watch?

[@krustykrabpizza00]

Who else came here for homework

[@megansnook3903]

Me

[@koolmonkey1876]

Yup

[@samplank245]

I did. ;)

[@ramona3840]

Me!

[@HOUSEOFATREUSProductions]

ben kingsley's son

[@janovesakkestad7097]

D and t

[@janovesakkestad7097]

Constant the intellectual structure of the language

[@enriquehuelgos2238]

Really awesome.

[@АрттурЗвайгзне]

Yes Yes - ОБХС

[@jesuspectre9883]

This is wonderful, and about 50 percent pure bullshit. Consonants are the intellectual structure of language? As opposed to the spiritual structure? Consonants are the structure of language, maybe, but the intellectual structure? That's a little odd.

[@royfr8136]

Yes bs

[@jamesvaneaton206]

Yeah, they lost me about halfway through. I see the value in the whispering exercise and in mentally highlighting important words, but to assign greater meaning to something like "Thus" only for the sake of its "S" sound seems like the forced creation of a pattern out of nothing.

[@AnnaMaria-oy1fp]

In Shakespeare vowels express emotion and consonants express thought. That's what we are taught in drama school and it's true.

[@janovesakkestad7097]

Its a lot of ssss and schhh in there is it not

[@darbyluke_]

THe acTor is on fortnite

[@jayfloramusic]

The Actor is Sir Ben Kingsley's son Ferdinand.