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

Knight, Dudley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140815689X ISBN 13: 9781408156896

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2012

Synopsis

Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally. Janet Madelle Feindel - Associate Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University.

Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in other speech texts for theatre.

Speaking with Skill reintegrates speech training with the allied fields of linguistics and voice science and represents the first serious reexamination of the archaic standards and pedagogy that have dominated speech training for actors and other professional speakers in America. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.

About this title

About the Author

Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He has had an extensive stage career that includes major roles in regional theatres along with hundreds of roles in film, television, radio, and voice-over. He is certified as master teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and has enjoyed a 40 year career as voice, speech, text, and dialect teacher and voice/text director for professional theatre. He conducts workshops and lectures on voice and speech for actors and voice teachers nationwide and is Currently Editor-in-Chief of Voice and Speech Review.

Review

“Knight’s clear writing and the accompanying audio files make for an engaging independent learning experience ... I fully expect that Dudley Knight’s excellent new book will become the dominant text in the speech classes of American acting conservatories in the years to come. Though the book challenges conservative traditions in actor training, the skills readers/students acquire through its processes are invaluable and essential.” –Voice and Speech Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 140815689X
• ISBN 13: 9781408156896
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352