Speaking With Skill

Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters – and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker this easy communication to the listener must always happen in every moment onstage in film or on television; in real life too.. This book an introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork gives speakers the ownership of a vast variety of speech skills and the ability to explore unlimited varieties of speech actions – without imposing a single unvarying pattern of good speech. The skills gained through this book enable actors to find the unique way in which a dramatic character embodies the language of the play. They also help any speaker to communicate to a listener with total intelligibility without compromising the speaker's own accent; and to vary speech actions to meet different language needs.. Supporting audio provides 116 tracks illustrating the exercises described in the book.