Book Description
Listen and learn! You listen to the tape while following the text and learn the dialects and speeches. An innovative tool for every actor, public speakers, anyone interested in sharpening their dialectic skills, Here, for the first time, on cassette tape with a corresponding book of monologues, in one convenient package-thirteen essential dialects: Texas, Irish, British, French, New York City, Boston, Mountain Southern, Chicago, German, Yiddish, Spanish, Cockney, and Italian. And each has been applied to a contemporary speech (speeches that may be delivered-with or without the accent-for audition and classroom purposes).
Publisher comments
The readings and instructional text are by Dr. David Alan Stern, dialectician to the stars: Lynn Redgrave, Jack Klugman, Edward James Olmos, Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis, Genna Davis and others. The monologues are by Roger Karshner. Mr. Karshner is a published playwright. His works enjoy widespread productions throughout the United States and Canada. His play "The Dream Crust" was selected by Burns Mantle as one of America's best.
