Voice

As I am playing Hannay in our production of 39 steps so my understanding of voice is a lot similar then everyone else as I do not multi role so I only need one voice. My voice for Hannay needs to be a well brought up posh man from the thirties. I was able to mold my voice into this easy but I had a recurring problem. My pronouncing of some words isn't great due to the area and people I was brought up with I naturally slur words and don't pronounce all the letters of a word. I spent a short time working on this as once I became aware of this I was able to adapted and change my speech pattern. I had another bigger problem with my voice that was later pointed out to me and that was with my "f" and "th". I had a speech pattern where I would naturally say "th" as "f" making words like "that" into "fat" or "thirty" into "firty". This was becoming a big issue for me that I was struggling to overcome as I found my self naturally saying "f" for every thing.
To try and help with thus issue I looked up some tongue twisters that I could use to help involving "th".

"I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought"

"They threw three thick things"

"Father, mother, sister, brother- hand in hand with one another"

I used these tongue twisters before practicing Hannay's monologue at the start of the show. These tongue twisters over time helped with this issue but has not got rid of it. While playing Hannay I have to really thing about the movement of tongue because. Eventually after focusing on this issue I was able to use my voice with thus only being a little issue in my performance as I still naturally find myself saying "th" but the amount I do this has definitely decreased since I became aware of the issue and started working on it.