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Adams, wearing a large blue-green sports jacket, read five passages quickly in his native British accent and in the varied voices of his characters. The audience of 250 punctuated the readings with laughter and applause...
...faint Russian accent, khanga discussed the importance for people "to know their roots, to understand their heritage, and to have the self-confidence that comes as a result of these...
Although Paris is still slave to what French rapper MC Solaar calls "the cult of the sneaker," other rap accoutrements like gold jewelry are giving way to a more Afrocentric accent, notably batik fabrics and African coats of arms of the sort worn in America by Queen Latifah. The burgeoning dictionary of Franglais, moreover, includes not only le rap but a distinctively Gallic version of the standard salutation, "What's up?" Szup? is what American ears & hear, though in Paris it sounds more like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy...
Francesca Delbanco was a superb Cecily, presenting just the right mixture of child-like innocence and teenage romance. Janine Poreba was also entertaining as Gwendolen, although her accent was rather precarious at times...
Actually, it might have been better to have presented The Importance of Being Earnest with an American flavor than to have created this harsh imitation of the upper crust English accent. It was one of the few flaws of this performance: this attempt to bridge the Atlantic gap was often wildly funny, but it was certainly not Wilde...