Dialects for the Stage (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Dialects for the Stage Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents - from Yiddish to French Canadian - are clearly explained in Evangeline Machlin's classic work. Now available in a book-and-CD format, Evangeline Machlin's Dialects for the Stage is based on a method of dialect acquisition she develope...
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 01 April 2006
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
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- Categories: Theatre Studies | Dance & Other Performing Arts | Dialect, Slang & Jargon
- ISBN 13: 9780878302000 ISBN 10: 087830200X
- Sales rank: 870,696
Full description for Dialects for the Stage
Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents - from Yiddish to French Canadian - are clearly explained in Evangeline Machlin's classic work. Now available in a book-and-CD format, Evangeline Machlin's Dialects for the Stage is based on a method of dialect acquisition she developed during her years working with students at Boston University's Division of Theatre. During her long career, Evangeline Machlin trained such actors as Steve McQueen, Lee Grant, Suzanne Pleshette, Joanne Woodward, and Faye Dunaway.
