- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of that, generations of actors have felt disconnected from their own identities and acting choices.
This much-needed textbook redresses that trend and encourages actors to achieve intelligibility through rigorous language analysis and an exploration of their own accent and articulation practices.
Following an acting class model, where you first analyze the script then reveal yourself through it, this work breaks down a process for analyzing language in a way that excites the imagination. Guiding the student through the labyrinth of abstract concepts and terms, readers are delivered into the practicality of exercises and explorations, giving them self-awareness that enables them to make their own speech come alive.
Informed throughout by notes from the author's own extensive experience working with directors and acting teachers, this book serves as an ideal speech-training resource for the 21st -century actor, and includes specially commissioned online videos demonstrating key exercises.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Series preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A snapshot of you
- 2 Meet your text
- 3 Language of your body
- 4 Color me aware
- 5 The work of awareness
- 6 The shape of your sound
- 7 Your own kind of music
- 8 River of sounds
- 9 Splashing in the river
- 10 Moving forward
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Imprint