How To Do Standard English Accents: From Traditional RP to the New 21st-Century Neutral Accent - Softcover

Rowles, Jan Haydn; Sharpe, Edda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840029900 ISBN 13: 9781840029901

Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

The essential handbook for every actor In every drama school, in every English-speaking country, students from all over the world have to learn a Standard English Accent, and voice and drama tutors have to teach it. But what exactly is it? How many varieties are there? And which one should they use when? Following on from How To Do Accents, this book provides a long awaited, up-to-date answer to these important questions and offers; A complete course in how to do A Neutral Standard English Accent & Upper and Upper-Middle Class Varieties. Part One: contains all the tools you need to learn a current Neutral Standard English Accent; neutral in terms of class, race, age, gender, occupation and social background. Part Two: introduces you to the following most useful Upper and Upper-Middle Class varieties of Standard English Accent; Includes Free Online Code to access detailed exercises and sample sentences giving you the sounds you need for your Standard English Accents. It includes ready-to-use resource recordings of the following accents: Traditional RP Imperial Lords and Ladies Military, Matrons, and the Landed Gentry Debs, Dandies and Bright Young Things Wartime Wendies and BBC Berties Sloane Rangers The New Wave (Contemporary Standard English Accent)

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Review

If you want to speak the right type of Standard English Accent for your play or character, this is only book for you. Another detailed, practical and witty dialect handbook from Jan and Edda. Brilliant! --Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice, National Theatre

About the Author

Edda Sharpe is currently Visiting Dialect Coach for the RSC and Voice Associate at The Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada. As well as work for the RSC, West End and regional theatres, her more unusual clients include Ant and Dec, The Gorillaz, and (together with Jan) Gordon Ramsay. Edda was Head of Voice at e15 Acting School, and principal dialect teacher on the MA Voice Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also provided accent coaching and training for Lamda, e15, Guildford, Arts Educational and Mountview theatre schools, as well as the University of Minnesota and Florida State University. Edda is also an accredited NLP Master Practitioner delivering high level training in leadership and communication skills to the private and public sector. Jan Haydn Rowles was Head of Voice and Dialect at Shakespeare's Globe (2007-2010). She has also worked on numerous productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida, Shared Experience, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, the Salisbury Playhouse, Crucible Theatre Sheffield and in the West End. Jan's skills have also been employed on American and British films, radio and TV dramas, documentaries, and comedy series. She has provided accent coaching and teaching for Lamda, e15, Rose Bruford, Central School of Speech and Drama, Syracuse University and Florida State University. She also works as a voiceover artist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1840029900
• ISBN 13: 9781840029901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240