Speaking with Skill: A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work [With DVD]

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.

Author: Dudley Knight
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 09/26/2012
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781408156896
ISBN10: 140815689X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning

About the Author
Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. An award-winning actor and director, he has written - and been written about - extensively in journals and books regarding voice and speech issues. He was Editor-in-Chief of A World of Voice; and has trained many leading voice and speech faculty in major professional theatre programs.