Speaking With Skill: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work

by Dudley Knight

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Theatre, Communication, Language

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2012

Reviews

[Mason Todd · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book kind of taught me nothing?? It’s also very stuck in its ways and only closes in on a specific voice and diction teaching style. The class I read this book for was also the most boring thing I’ve been a part of. So take that with what you will.