A Few Good Men… And One Budgie
A Few Good Men: 25th – 28th January 2012 Left to right, in rehearsal: Lyle (Vicky), Sam Weinberg (John), Daniel Kaffee (Ben), Capt. Whitaker (me) and Jo Galloway, (Kelly). Photo by Craig Greenslade I’ve been at it again with a couple of local theatre productions. Theatre At Baddow’s major January production was Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, a huge challenge for its first time director, Pat Willis, not just because it’s a long, wordy play and full of legalese, ...
Talking American: And others TBC
I’m rubbish at accents. I can’t even do my own properly anymore. If you want comedy Northern/Irish/Brummie I can do that; most people can. But to actually speak convincingly with an accent as if I was born in that part of the country is something I can’t do easily. I am quite good at animals, however. My llama impression is particularly impressive – just ask Greg Davies.* As far as voiceover work goes, I don’t do accents or characters and ...
Tyneside or Teesside? What accent are you REALLY after?
Yesterday I saw a casting website urgently asking, on behalf of an agency, for a female VO with a “North East accent”. I’m a female Voiceover. I’m from the North East. My accent isn’t as strong as it was, but it’s still there in my normal day to day speech, most notably after a glass or two of wine or when I meet a fellow resident of my home town. It’s not very evident in my current VO work after ...
