Speaking With Skill: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work (Performance Books)

Speaking With Skill: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work (Performance Books)

<p>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.</p><p>This book, an introduction to <i>Knight-Thompson Speechwork</i>, 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.</p><p>Supporting audio provides 116 tracks illustrating the exercises described in the book.</p>