fiddler on the roof

[dillon]

can anyone give me any tips on how to perfect an eastern european accent for this stage production

[dot.hawkes]

Go into woolies and but the DVD, Topol was the star,

[starmack]

If I were a rich man I'd book a cheap flight out there for a weekend and have a listen to the accent....all day long.

[jno]

you could hire a Polish plumber to listen to for a week, but you'd end up sounding like a Polish plumber. In their own country, they just sound like normal, local people; so as others have suggested, your own normal speech should do.

[dot.hawkes]

the example of how this didn;t work is Colin farrell as Alexander, what a shambles

[starmack]

Meryl Streep has done them all.

[jno]

Farrell's accent was carefully calculated. The idea was that an Irish accent would sound to English (or American) ears a bit parochial, not quite mainstream, which is how Macedonian Alexander would have sounded in sophisticated Greek ears.