Smirnova Marina : "The reader has to be first of all a personality"
Tradition of expressive reading aloud, – today we speak "art reading" – there is to Russian Federation not a century and not two. The former serf, and subsequently the artist and the teacher Zaytsev I. K., in the book "Memoirs of the Old Teacher" wrote: "Kolya boringly to him (landowner) and to read laziness or cannot, sends for me; he already knew that I read not bad, and happened on the whole nights I read to him". Read aloud not only in noble, but also in petty-bourgeois, merchant, priestly families. As the genre of theatrical reading experienced art reading for long time and take-off, and falling. But survived. Develops. And...