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First, just wanted to wish everyone a happy new school year!

Second--I'm looking for accent/dialect scenes...  what shows are you working on this year with accents/dialects?

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Adam Michael Rose

Dialect Coach

Los Angeles CA

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We are producing DRACULA this fall. British, Dutch, and Slavic accents will be fun to work on....I think!

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Ron Wells

LCJ Summit Middle School, NJ
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Musical comedy murders of 1940 and Pentecost by David Edgar.  There are scenes in the first act of Pentecost that have three characters:  a Brit, a Bulgarian and a New Yorker. 

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Hope Love
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OMiriginal Message:
Sent: 08-27-2015 15:53
From: Adam Michael Rose
Subject: Accent/Dialect shows?

First, just wanted to wish everyone a happy new school year!

Second--I'm looking for accent/dialect scenes...  what shows are you working on this year with accents/dialects?

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Adam Michael Rose

Dialect Coach

Los Angeles CA

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Agatha Christie!  Witness for the Prosecution, Mousetrap, 10 Little Indians

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John Perry
Drama Instructor
Atherton High School
Louisville KY
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'Private Lives', Noel Coward: upper middle class British accents (what people think most British people still sound like today) :)

Any Harold Pinter; 'The Caretaker' and 'The Dumb Waiter' are more general London accents (not quite cockney, but not exactly RP either)

Willy Russell's 'Educating Rita': RP English and a Liverpool female - some great scenes in that. You might also consider his musical 'Blood Brothers,' which has singing and talking in Liverpool accented English

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Phillip Goodchild
Theatre Arts Instructor/Assistant Department Head of English
Hillsborough County Schools
Ruskin FL
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Hi. Try ROMANOFF and Juliet, for Russian, Dancing at Lughnasa or Playboy of the Western World for Irish, Back Country Crimes or The Greater Tuna or any Tennessee Williams for Southern, Fen for Northumbrian, and any Lorca for Spanish. 
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Elisabeth Ledwell
Falmouth MA
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Hi Adam!

Looking forward to your visit to work on accents with my class. I agree with John, we are going to read The Mousetrap in preparation for learning British accents. For southern accents, we have read, Laundry and Bourbon, Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart, and Christmas Belles. Our spring musical is In the Heights which should require some Latin/New York accents.

Hope that helps!

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Marla Blasko
Theatre Arts Director
Columbia MD
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39 Steps.

Lots of short scenes.  British, Scottish, Irish, German...sometimes all at the same time.

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John Rutherford
Rochester Hills MI
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Hello Mr. Rose!  My school is taking Once On This Island to our State Conference this year, and we've had a lot of fun working on the Antillean/Haitian accents.  I hope this helps, and good luck this school year!

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Grace Alt
ITO Vice Chair
Wyndmoor PA
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Hi, Adam!

If you are still looking for plays with accents/dialects, I highly recommend THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT. There is New York/Bronx, Irish, Yiddish, Polish, Russian...and probably a few others. the scenes are very short, however, but the story is riveting.

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Nancy Bernhard
Salinas CA
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