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Brian
Mac Ian
...students
Sources
Two
minutes & Counting (Finding the Monologue that Fits)
  AUDITION
(by Michael Shurtleff)
 The
Way of the Actor (by Brian Bates)
 Actor
Tools (courtesy
of Little Lip Productions)(free e-book)
Brand Spankin' New!
Since
it's good to know your "type" for auditioning, chosing headshot styles
and perhaps just general vanity's sake, check out MyHeritage. It
provides a face recognition program (register for free to use) which is
fun and easy to use. Just click on the logo. (To see
what I did with some of my headshots and character shots, click here.)
Links
Brian
Mac Ian Workshops & Classes Newsletter (free subscription required)
The
Actors' Center
(Washington, DC)
TONGUE TWISTERS
(these are just a few of
the ones I commonly use in classes, workshops and while directing)
"Amidst
the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts;
he
thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees those
ghosts."
"What
a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two;
a
thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do.
We'll
beat a tattoo, at twenty to two
a
rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo
and
the dragon will come at the beat of the drum
at
a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two."
"Moses
supposes his toses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously."
(from "Singing In The Rain")
"The
lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue."
"You
know you need unique New York."
"Cecil
vexeth Essex."
"Red
leather, yellow leather. Good blood, bad blood."
"Rubber
baby buggy bumpers."
"Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers
did Peter Piper pick?"
"Suzy's
Irish Sushi Special."
"She
sells seashells by the sea shore."
"The
sixth Sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
... and if you're up for
much more tongue-twisting torture, check this webpage: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm.
Making your own tongue
twisters is rather simple. Just form a grammically-correct phrase
or sentence where your mouth cannot slur or run words together and
force yourself to say it faster and faster BUT with clear
elecution. Remember: the phrase or sentence does not have to make
sense.
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