Tongues of Flame

DAWN LANGMAN undertook a mainstream speech and acting training in Australia, followed by seven years of performing and teaching at secondary and tertiary levels. Her quest for an integrated approach that includes the spiritual dimension led her to train with Maisie Jones at the London School of Speech Formation in the method developed by Rudolf and Marie Steiner. She then taught for ten years at Emerson College in Sussex. Following this, Dawn trained in Michael Chekhov’s acting technique with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan of the Actors Ensemble in NewYork. Returning to Australia, she founded the School of the Living Word, where for eight years she continued to research the integration of Speech Formation with Chekhov’s technique. She currently teaches this methodology at the Drama Centre, Flinders University, South Australia. Dawn is the author of The Art of Acting and The Art of Speech (both 2014).

Table of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Preface – Introduction – The true names of things: reading the script, poetic and literal consciousness – Chapter 1, The key to the Mysteries: The founding myth – Chapter 2, 'It takes so many thousand years to wake': drama at the threshold – Chapter 3, When will the lost word be found? – Chapter 4, 'The fabulous wings unused': towards a drama of the future – Chapter 5, 'We shall not cease from exploration' – Epilogue, The crucible of art – Appendices:
Appendix A, Additional volumes in this series – Appendix B, Therapeutic applications of Speech Formation – Appendix C, DVD recordings of Dawn Langman's lecture series: 'A Dramatic Journey through the evolution of human consciousness' – List of plays quoted or cited – Bibliography – List of illustrations – Notes