Playwright explores ‘gay voice’ with script reading

Seoul Players invites drama lovers to a rehearsed reading this weekend of “Acute Accent,” a new play by written Rory Kelly, a British resident of Seoul. “Acute Accent” tells the story of Hig and Rob, a gay couple living in the U.K. Hig is English, working as a professor of linguistics, while Rob is an unemployed American actor. The day after they get engaged, their mothers both show up uninvited and a huge secret is revealed. Meanwhile, in flashbacks, we see a young Hig being sent to speech therapy because of his lisp. “Exploring themes of family, trauma and our relationships with our own voices, ‘Acute Accent’ is a modern drama with a lot of humor and pathos,” Kelly told The Korea Times. “I was inspired to write the play because of the phenomenon of ‘gay voice’ and how many homosexual men hate the way they speak, even if they are proud of their identity. I was once told by a vocal coach that I had done irreparable damage to my vocal chords in pitching down my voice, trying to sound more typically masculine. On top of this, I wanted to explore family estrangement and how it can be o

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