The Board of the American Branch is delighted to announce that it has approved a grant to the A Voice For Richard III project, led by Yvonne Morley-Chisholm of Your Voice Box. This groundbreaking project captured international attention when a team of experts from linguistics, anatomy, forensic psychology, technology, and medieval history, produced a “living” digital avatar of Richard III who spoke and enunciated in authentic late 15th century English
Speaker: Yvonne Morley-Chisholm To Register, Email: membership@r3.org What started for Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, voice teacher and specialist vocal coach, over ten years ago as an after-dinner entertainment to compare Shakespeare’s character with what we know of the real man, developed quickly into a research project with a unique focus: to explore the possibility of recreating a literal voice for a long-dead King. Experts from various fields came together in a pioneering
Voice of Richard III — WORLD PREMIERE – ‘LIVING’ AND SPEAKING RICHARD III Imagine if you could see and hear King Richard III speaking his own words. Imagine if you could see him breathing, thinking and effectively ‘brought back to life’. On Sunday 17 November 2024 at York Theatre Royal, state-of-the-art technology will reveal for the first time: a moving, breathing, ‘living’ face of a long-dead king speaking his own
