Like Ms. Redgrave, Ms. Hall is (as Rosalind puts it) "more than common tall," a physical fact accented here by pairing her with the petite, appealingly sharp-tongued Rebecca Callard as Celia, Rosalind's cousin.
It just wasn't the kind of acting that traditionally wins awards, inasmuch as it did not involve a foreign accent, physical handicap, drinking problem or fatal disease.
Only on occasion are there "glitches" that take us outside the formerly agreed-to boundaries: Watson's British accent and physical restraint gives way to an American-accented rock-star persona; Aldrich and Zoe Boesen "corpse" –struggling to hold back their laughter; Gallacher takes a cloth to her face, removing the heavy white foundation to show flushed, raw skin.
He understands that he must provide more than just the striking physical resemblance or the accent that's become a cultural landmark.
A woman who is so transparently pandering to every constituency that she seems to adopt a slight accent or physical nuance to align herself with the state she's trying to woo.
And with his blond hair, strapping physique and British accent, Sam Redford gives physical expression to Lovborg's outsider status.
He has an ability to immerse himself in an extraordinarily broad range of parts, seeming to change voice, accent and even physical appearance with each one.
Skinner tries out comic variations, switching accents, bits of physical comedy.
Watching Noah's show in Johannesburg in July, David Smith of the Guardian and Observer was impressed by his "charm and polish", as well as "his surging self-confidence and his mercurial talent for accents, mimicry and physical comedy".
It demonstrates his charm and polish as a performer, his surging self-confidence and his mercurial talent for accents, mimicry and physical comedy – a theatricality that perhaps invites comparisons with Stephen Colbert rather than Stewart himself.
