I’ve been banging on about knowledge and knowing over the last couple of weeks.
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Knowledge is Power. Right? Not a curse. Why, then, do I feel like it’s making me worse?
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Accent work can feel fun. I promise. It can feel like a creative act. Like a juicy, integral part of your approach to acting.
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You might have read my last few blogs and found yourself thinking, This is all lovely, Maeve, but how on earth do I apply it to accent work?
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People pleasing is a little like those cleans you do when you’ve someone important coming to visit. You know the kind. You find yourself frantically shoving things in cupboards…
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Actors. Accent work is character work. Of course it is.
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I live in Scotland now. I moved from London to Edinburgh in March 2021. And I haven’t looked back.
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Why not take some time off ‘work’ to do just that? You see, I don’t see voice work as ‘work’ at all...
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Just because it seems effortless doesn’t mean that a hell of a lot of work hasn’t gone on behind the scenes.
I’d a lot of fun talking to The News Letter about my favourite art, artists and my life in the arts. Have a snoop if you fancy knowing what I did to keep myself entertained during lockdown...
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There is nothing I hear more from my English clients than “I feel really over the top and false when I do my American Accent.’ My response is always the same: “Good. It’s supposed to feel like that.” And I mean it.
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When you only need to hear the words ‘voice’ and ‘coach’ to want to run for hills…
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After years and years of listening to clients and colleagues exclaim, ‘Where’s the book?!’ it seemed only right that with my shiny new website should come a shiny new blog…
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