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One Man, Two Guv’nors

Actor Resources for the 2023 Colorado Shakespeare Festival Production

Actor Accent Resources

London/Estuary English

Middle- and working-class accents throughout the Southeast of England tend to share many features. They lie on a dialect continuum known as “Estuary” English, with posh RP at one end of the spectrum and broad Cockney at the other. The following characters will employ some form of Estuary English:

  • Francis
  • Charlie
  • Pauline
  • Alan
  • Rachel
  • Alfie

British Received Pronunciation (“RP”)

The dominant “prestige” accent of England, this is a learned, rather than a regional accent. It is a language variety associated with education and access.

  • Stanley
  • Harry (“tries for posh Brighton”)
  • Gareth

Jamaican

  • Lloyd

Yorkshire

  • Dolly

Irish

  • “Paddy”