Why Are So Many Stage Accents So Terrible?
By Jonathan Mandell. Why are so many accents on stage so awful? They aren't in the movies. I first noticed this problem as a child on a family trip to London, where my parents for unfathomable reasons brought us to a production on the West End of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite". The British cast was affecting a flat American accent broadly and badly enough to irritate the least discerning seven-year-old (me.)
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