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When BBC Radio York's Neil Foster met a group of budding
actors from the Stagecoach Youth Theatre group in York, he was keen to
know how their accents might affect their chances of getting into their
chosen career.
Drama students Nick and Lee said they thought that some
Southern drama schools favour people with a Northern accent, while Sarah,
the only member of the group who went to a public school, is worried that
her RP accent may count against her.
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All three live in York and are involved with the Stagecoach
Youth Theatre group, but they don't all go to the same college.
Transcript
Lee: I've heard from sum of my teachers at college
that sum drama schools like t'have a variety of different accents, like
there's some drama schools in london that really like th'Yorkshire accent.
Nick: Yeh, Italia Conti, tha ma sister's just gone't,
the' love Northerners, y'know they're pullin them in from all'over the
place... it's tha Northerners who get the most agents in the end.
Lee: But then again, y'have t'be yourself
Nick: Well, yeh
Lee: If yer doin a different accent an y'slip out
of it, they're gonna think yer faking it... y'need t'be yerself fa any
audition y'go to. So it's bad if yer puttin on a different accent, an
then they find out."
Stacy: Cos thas what meks you, y'know, they want t'hire
you, not sumbody else
Lee: Cos theve got to work on yer to do it, an it's
yer job t'learn... s'I'm, sure thas the bes' part of tryin t'accomplish
sumthing like that is learning... how to adjust yer voice to a differen
settin... an stuff
Stacy: It's like I wen t'an open day an sumbody put
they hand up an sed "Well, blah, blah, blah about all this money
an fees" an he talked really posh. He stood... er... this guy, this
lecturer, stood up an said "Look, we want y'ter be yerself, y'know.
We don' care how much money yer've got, we don' care what school yer've
come from, we want yer t'be yerself."
Sarah: I just, erm, I just, errr, worry about some
universities having taken a slightly... cos I don't want to do a drama
school, I want to do drama at university and... er... some... I know that
now, now my good education will be a down factor in that, so, and people
can pick that up form my accent."
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