No “rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” nonsense here. With “One Dollar” shooting in Western Pennsylvania since spring, it has been more like, “hangin’ aroun’ Dahntahn.”
The yinzer patois is a wonderful, terrible thing.
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Speakin' yinzer n'at: 'One Dollar' actors say they find no language barrier in our unusual dialect
No “rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” nonsense here. With “One Dollar” shooting in Western Pennsylvania since spring, it has been more like, “hangin’ aroun’ Dahntahn.”
The yinzer patois is a wonderful, terrible thing.
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The Article Speakin’ Yizer’n by Maria Sciullo, gave an example of a very specialized component (of many), that goes into a successful production, Dialect. This extreme example given in the show One Dollar , helps you put into perspective the importance of dialect, from the people who practice it (actors) to the ones teaching it. The characters dialect spoken in a show is another piece of the puzzle. It helps immerse the audience into the world we create and convinces them it's real. Dialect directs the audience to the setting of the show. It lets us know, on an individual level, where each character is and where they are from. In the show One Dollar, it is used to highlight how Pittsburg (the shows setting) is a cultural melting pot. Their characters speak in, from the absurd to slight, accents that are a mixture of many. This article brings to light how many details help the moving parts in this imagineering machine work.
The Article Speakin’ Yizer’n by Maria Sciullo, gave an example of a very specialized component (of many), that goes into a successful production, Dialect. This extreme example given in the show One Dollar , helps you put into perspective the importance of dialect, from the people who practice it (actors) to the ones teaching it. The characters dialect spoken in a show is another piece of the puzzle. It helps immerse the audience into the world we create and convinces them it's real. Dialect directs the audience to the setting of the show. It lets us know, on an individual level, where each character is and where they are from. In the show One Dollar, it is used to highlight how Pittsburg (the shows setting) is a cultural melting pot. Their characters speak in, from the absurd to slight, accents that are a mixture of many. This article brings to light how many details help the moving parts in this imagineering machine work.
This article correctly paints "Dialect" as an essential for any performing media because dialect involves a things about a place: its origin, the way that certain words are spoken and the general tonality of the people's language of the given place.
People often mistake accent with dialect. Whereas accent refers to pronunciation, dialect is the vernacular language of a place. And it is because of this that grasping the dialect of a place that is set as a background of a place is very important. A dialect is unique to a place; hence the best way to depict the place.
A Brooklyn dialect is very different from a Boston Dialect. One cannot perform a play set in California with a New England Dialect, if they are shown as natives.
Dialect ties the play together in terms of the realistic aspect of a place. That is why it is so important to get it right. And that is what this article says, along with how difficult it is to grasp a dialect to the T.
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