Accent Handbook, The: A Practical Guide to Learning Accents - Hardcover

Hammett, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350243329 ISBN 13: 9781350243323

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2024

Synopsis

Need to learn an accent for an audition? Got the part but can’t quite grasp the sounds? Want to expand your repertoire? The Accent Handbook is a novel approach to accent-learning, providing a practical, digestible and customisable way of learning any accent of your choosing. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience coaching students and leading stage and screen actors, the book offers more than 200 empowering exercises to actively explore and hone accent features. You can dip in and out or go from cover to cover, depending on your aims, what you’re learning or how much time you have. The book is accompanied by a wide-ranging and diverse library of contemporary accent recordings from across the globe. Uniquely, it also offers a guide to finding accent samples and getting more out of your listening. A section devoted to accent and acting delves into the powerful interplay between dialect, character and performance. Approachable and encouraging, this book is an essential companion to keep by your side as you take on an accent, from first listen to performance.

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About the Author

Lottie Williams-Burrell is Joint Head of Voice at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Having trained as an actor, she completed her Masters in Voice at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She moved to Italy to set up an English-speaking theatre company where she taught English as a foreign language. A keen linguist, she is an expert on working with accents in English from foreign languages. She is an accent and dialect coach most recently working on Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston at London's Harold Pinter Theatre before its transfer to Broadway.

Jessica Hammett is Senior Voice Tutor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and an accent and dialect coach working across theatre, TV and film. She recently completed filming on Rebecca produced by Working Title and Netflix working with Armie Hammer, Lily James and Kristen Scott-Thomas, as well as His Dark Materials working with Terence Stamp. She read English at Oxford University and gained her Masters at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350243329
• ISBN 13: 9781350243323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214