Perforum presents Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley

4 Oct 2023

2:15pm - Weds 11th October - Granary Theatre 

This presentation will introduce the life and work of visionary voice teacher Kristin Linklater. Her work will be situated and contextualised within 20th and 21st century approaches to voice training for actors, and the distinguishing features of her work foregrounded. A brief discussion will be included on the vision for freeing women’s voices that informed the work of the Company of Women, an all-female Shakespeare company, which Linklater co-founded with psychologist, feminist and ethicist Carol Gilligan in 1990. Moments of practice will be engaged as part of the presentation.

The presenters, Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley, are co-authors of Kristin Linklater (2023), published by Routledge in their Performance Practitioners series.

Bios:

Bernadette Cronin lectures in Voice, Devised Adaptation and Performance Practice at the Department of Theatre, University College Cork, Ireland. An actor, theatre-maker and deviser, she is a designated Linklater Voice Teacher and a co-founder and co-artistic director of Gaitkrash Theatre Company (www.gaitkrash.com). She holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Exeter, UK.

Regina Crowley lectures in Voice, Performance and Directing at the MTU Cork School of Music, Ireland. A performer, director and deviser, she is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Gaitkrash Theatre Company (www.gaitkrash.com). She was designated by Kristin Linklater a Linklater Voice Teacher in 2010, and subsequently assisted Linklater in a number of training sessions and teacher designations.

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