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Adjectival acting
 

 
 

Adjectival acting

Barrie Rutter, director of The Wars of the Roses describes some of the habits of modern actors, including what he sees as inappropriate stressing of adjectives before the noun or the subject has been given. This, he claims, is “a plague”.

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