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Accent or Dialect?

11 June, 2009
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Actors and Acting, Featured, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance.

accent, Actors and Acting, Add new tag, Christopher Hampton, dialect, God of Carnage, Queensland Theatre Company, speech, spoken English, voice, Yasmina Reza

Slam poetry and the power of speech

15 January, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

Rhetorical power was the subject of some attention this week. One of the US Democratic Party’s hopefuls in the presidential primary race gave a marvellous ‘Yes We Can’ concession speech which used repetition to make its point. Barack Obama is a forceful, clear speech-giver. You can catch it here. I like this take on the

Asides, rhetoric, skills, slam-poetry, speech, Videos, voice

But wait … here’s another great voice artist

14 December, 2007
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Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

A couple of days ago I featured a top Yank, Don LaFontaine … today it’s a top Brit, Mike Hurley. This little 14 minute video is from 1994, and my tech friends assure me the equipment and technology qualify as pure nostalgia. But there’s nothing creaky about the voice at work here. Great stuff.

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Accent or Dialect?

Slam poetry and the power of speech

But wait … here’s another great voice artist