The Body Speaks

'Stimulating and intelligent' Yoshi Oida



Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed through body

language, twenty percent is the voice and only ten percent is the

meaning of the words. In The Body Speaks, expert RADA trainer

Lorna Marshall, shows how to recognise and lose unwanted physical

inhibitions that our background, education or family have taught us and

presents a fundamental re-thinking of our relationship to the body and

its role in performance.



Good performers - be they trapeze artists, Shakespearean actors,

Butoh dancers or film stars - are able to fully reach their audience

and engage with them because they have learnt to use their bodies to

its best effect. Through a series of practical exercises, Lorna

Marshall encourages us to unleash our potential, discover new

possibility for the body and express ourselves more clearly. This new

edition has been fully revised to include the latest thinking on the

subject and more exercises particularly for performers in TV and film.