Atlantic City

Here's some basic image research inspired by this evening's rehearsal. The following images are shots of Atlantic City, NJ from 1900-1907. The boardwalk was immensely popular for both locals and tourists, for business and pleasure. A great contemporary resource for a (fairly historically accurate) take on Atlantic City is HBO's Boardwalk Empire.  It's set in the roaring twenties, so it's about fifteen years later than the setting of our play, but aesthetically, it's quite impressive so check it out if you can!

Accent Resources for Actors

FORVO is a project that bills itself as the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Users can contribute their own pronunciations, and listen to those of contributors around the world.
Tips to Learning a Dialect
1) Listen during your commute
2) Listen while you work-out
3) Listen as you drift off to sleep
4) Listen while you work... during your late spring cleaning?
5) Listen in lines... if you're planning on visiting the DMV anytime soon.
6) Listen while you relax... if anyone is planning to lay out and catch some rays.

Play some online digital DIALECT LANGUAGE GAMES! Fun!

You can also search geographically and can read along with a paragraph on this website.

**Fun Fact: A dialect is spoken by someone by a different region in the same native language; an accent is when native language habits influence the speaking of a new foreign language. That being said, these words are constantly misused interchangeably, as evidenced by the websites above. Nevertheless, they may help!