Drama Scholars Master the Art of Accents 

Drama scholars in Fourth Year and above, got to grips with accents. Ask almost any young performer if they can do an accent, and you almost inevitably get a very hesitant, ‘maybe… if I practice… I don’t know… I’m not sure…’ It’s easy to forget that, at its core, an accent is simply a change in how our mouths move and sounds are made. Working with a voice coach, the group soon got to grips with the basic mechanics before working on the key changes needed to deliver lines in heightened RP, American and Scottish accents. By breaking the words down into different vowel sounds and how simple switches make all the difference, the group were soon delivering monologues in their newly learned accents. Want to try it yourself? When attempting a Scottish accent, replace the ‘ay’ sound in words like ‘face’, ‘day’ and ‘against’ with an elongated ‘ee’ sound. And don’t forget that Scottish is a rhotic accent, meaning that if you see the R you say the R! Have a go…!