ABSTRACT
In many of the conversations in "natural/free" voice training texts and interviews, "the human voice" is the "same everywhere" and "the voice is the voice" regardless of linguistic or cultural context. This chapter examines the conversations and offers a more complex discussion of the relationship between culture and voice. It proposes that practice-as-research provides a viable methodological approach to investigating this area. The chapter offers the reader a basis for understanding the rationale behind the structure of this research within a given historic and artistic context. The chapter aims to cherry-pick a few conversations from intercultural theatre discourse that have influenced developing practice. This helped to create a frame of reference, when migrating the work from one cultural context to another and grapple with the larger issues of cultural production that emerged from the practice. Investigating the theoretical principles that underpin practice by working through practice is an approach to research currently popular in British higher education institutions.
