A billabong or puna ngahere of sound? Teaching Linklater Voice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Abstract

Linklater Voice work is “based in an approach to voice training for actors developed originally by Iris Warren in the 1930s and 1940s in London” (Linklater, 2018). The work grew and transformed when Kristin Linklater, a student of Iris Warren’s, moved to the United States in the 1960s. Linklater wrote that “The Linklater vocabulary of training is umbilically and imaginatively connected to the vocabulary of Stanislavksy, Michael Chekhov, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Stephen Wangh” (2018). Beyond the language of instruction, Linklater work draws on imagery and landscape of the Northern Hemisphere (specifically Britain and North America). The influence of British voice traditions has long g..