Mare Trevathan has performed Inupiat folk tales in Barrow, Alaska; stage managed dance-theatre in Tokyo; and studied Chekhov in Vladivostok, Russia. Denver tamed her wanderlust and has been her home of seven years.

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Great IDEA (dialect resource)

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August 3, 1:45 AM

by Mare Trevathan, Denver Theater Examiner

For theatre practicioners:

IDEA has an extensive online- and FREE- archive of dialects exemplified by native speakers. It also has a list of plays- only around 30 but ranging from "Anna in the Tropics" to "Fiddler on the Roof"- with audio examples of proper pronunciation of names and terms.

For more info: web.ku.edu/idea

Topics: theatre , theater , actor , dialect , accent , IDEA

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