How to Do Accents: The Essential Handbook for Every Actor - Softcover

Edda Sharpe; Jan Haydn Rowles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840026006 ISBN 13: 9781840026009

Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

By breaking accents down into the 'foundations', 'major players', 'vowel shapes' and 'the groove', and by using the accompanying CD, the reader is led through a step by step simple but detailed process, helping them to understand their own accent, compare it to the new, and develop the flexibility to produce new sounds and authentic new accents. "How to Do Accents" comes with a CD with a variety of sample speakers and example sounds. The CD includes genuine and detailed recordings of the following accents: RP; American; Scotland/Glasgow; Northern Ireland/Belfast; Southern Ireland/Cork; South Wales/Swansea; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Manchester; Liverpool; West Midlands; London/Cockney; and, London/Contemporary. The book is accessible and comprehensive, and is sure to become the essential tool for professional actors, drama students and amateurs alike.

About this title

Review:

`At last! A really practical (and fun) guide to accent training. I recommend it to all actors and voice teachers' -- Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice, National Theatre

`This excellent and easy-to-follow guide will be invaluable to professionals and students alike'
-- Lyn Darnley, Head of Voice and Artist Development, Royal Shakespeare Company

From the Publisher:

How to Do Accents is the perfect guide for drama students, actors, voice and dialect teachers and drama teachers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1840026006
• ISBN 13: 9781840026009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224