Introduction to Speechwork for Actors

<p>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.</p>