Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director says he thinks he has interpreted the show very differently from other productions of "Evita." "I see it as a colder production than ones that are usually done. `Evita' is a cynical, harsh portrayal of a totalitarian regime," Fratto says. "To accent this perception, I stripped down the music to a hard-edge,rock score," he says...
...really in vogue when it lands on Saturday Night Live. Last year the once-funny series ran a set of continuing skits featuring the decidedly un-Asian Dana Carvey. Carvey, sporting a black wig and thick glasses, played a Chinese pet shop owner. He spoke in an exaggerated "Chinese" accent. The main joke in the skits centered on Carvey's dubious proclivity for his chickens. "Chicken make good house pet" was his motto...
...form alone, The Dictionary of the Khazars is revolutionary. It entertains the reader while forcing him to concentrate intensely. In addition, Pavic tells an allegory about the contradictions in language. His Khazars, who aspired to speak their own language with a foreign accent and who deliberately chose translators who made mistakes in the Khazar language, are painfully aware of the limits and possibilities of communication across boundaries of culture, gender, time and religion...
...action in Doctor is set in Russia, as in Simon's Fools. But if it weren't for actor John Byrd's accent (in the role of Cherdyakov in the sketch "The Sneeze") or the fact that all the money is expressed in rubles, you might miss this detail...
...star of the play is Byrd, who steals every scene in which he appears. Byrd is talented at assuming accents (in fact, he is the only member of the cast who attempts to do so), though perhaps he is stretching his talents in giving a Russian tramp a British cockney accent in the sketch "A Drowned Man." Byrd has a certain comic flair which radiates through all his roles and makes watching him particularly enjoyable...