Scenes for Actors and Voices

by Butler, Daws

• ISBN13: 9780971457065
• ISBN10: 0971457069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Bear Manor Media

Summary

This is Daws Butler's book of scenes, exercises and advice for voice actors, written for those who are now tops in the profession.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Corey Burton	1	(12)
Preface	13	(2)
The Writer And Actor And Mutual Orchestration	15	(4)
Exercises:
Warm Up Exercises	19	(1)
Plosives And Sibilants #1	20	(1)
Plosives And Sibilants #2	21	(2)
Temperaments	23	(2)
Dialogues
2 Men:
Because Aunt Rapunzel Was There	25	(4)
Blur-Blur	29	(4)
The Lil Bitty Bit	33	(2)
Three Bears	35	(2)
Godot (Not Home) Revisited	37	(4)
My Brunch With "A"	41	(4)
Diffusion	45	(3)
A 'Likely' Story,	48	(3)
Words	51	(3)
Margery Dickerson (Irish)	54	(3)
Mr. Dalrymple (British)	57	(2)
2 Women:
Polly And Aspersion	59	(3)
Relating	62	(3)
Sylvia Silverman (Jewish)	65	(4)
Man And Woman:
Forget Metaphor...Whatta You Mean?	69	(4)
Every Dog Has 'Her' Day!	73	(3)
A Sad Story	76	(3)
Poochie Sorts It Out	79	(2)
Love In Venice	81	(3)
Two Hamburgers!-Hold Everything!	84	(3)
Fred And Trudy (Non Monologue)	87	(2)
Father And Daughter	89	(3)
Home Is Where The Heart Is	92	(3)
Thieves Among Us	95	(4)
Words Get Bandied About	99	(3)
Italian Cafe (Italian/American)	102	(2)
Glynnis (British)	104	(2)
Edgerton Voss Steps Out (British/American)	106	(5)
2 Men, 1 Woman:
Dishwasher 'Hands'	111	(3)
Everything's Patterns-Even Waffles	114	(4)
There Are Teenagers ...and Teenagers	118	(5)
1 Man, 2 Women:
A Dog Like Alice	123	(3)
Infidelity Spoken Here	126	(5)
3 Women:
Telling It Like It Is "More Majesty"	131	(6)
How To Do Dialects	137	(6)
Monologues:
Man:
The Agent	143	(2)
New Yorker	145	(1)
A Bad Time Was Had By All	146	(3)
Young Bachelor	149	(1)
Ear-bending At Nate'n'als	150	(1)
Mary Had A Little Lamb	151	(1)
Indian Stand-up Comic (Indian Dialect)	152	(2)
The Uncle Lefty Kiddy Show (Brooklyn Dialect)	154	(4)
Woman:
Life Is Eating A Lobster
Love The Worthy	158	(1)
To Tell It Like It Is, Or Not To Tell It Like It Is	159	(1)
Donna	160	(2)
Emotional Disappointment	162	(1)
Fred And Trudy	163	(2)
Glenhall And Betts	165	(2)
Yellow Flowers	167	(1)
Young Matron	168	(3)
The Editors	171