Word: cockneyism
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When we move to Salvation Army headquarters, we find another group of characters, all of whom speak carefully nurtured low-class accents. Phillip Kerr is outstanding as the mustachioed cockney Bill Walker--swaggering, snarling, pugnacious, unrepenteat. His performance is all the more impressive for managing to obliterate every trace of his work as Octavius in the two Shakespeare plays. As the starving Peter, Joseph Maher is eloquent whether silent or speaking...
...conflict. Similarly, the riverside scene of the first act is played so close to the audience's feet that those seated further back would have to look under their seats to catch what's going down. Credit must be given to Greenwood for carefully instructing his cast in the Cockney accents of the play's South London milieu. And he also does well to guide them through a maze of scene changes and a dense fog of Pinteresque dialogue. But he nonetheless fails to shape the evening into dramatic highs and lows. The terrain the production travels is as flat...
...group could settle on. Set in lower-middle class England, the welfare state of yesterday's Look Back in Anger as well as tomorrow's Clockwork Orange, Saved is an unrelenting down. Osborne's young men were at least angry; Bond's are either brutish or defeated. Len, the Cockney whose abortive attempts to establish wife and family provide the structure of the piece, wants only to settle for a little peace and quiet, is willing to suffer living with his in-laws, even tries to look the other way as his girl leaves him to make it with...
...Family. Like Family, which was based on a long-running BBC hit called Till Death Do Us Part, the new show is also an adaptation of an English model. This time Yorkin and Lear have taken the BBC's Steptoe & Son, about the tribulations of a cockney junk dealer and his son, and Americanized it by setting it in a low-income black milieu. In the process they have come up with an inspired piece of casting: Redd Foxx, a black comic famed for his blue nightclub material...
...Paree-joie de vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs. He was the antithesis of the bourgeois from the 16th arrondissement, where eventually he went to live...