Australian actors John Bell and Linda Cropper have shared the key to acting out an American-created play.

The actors take to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Grand Horizons, an American play adapted to the Australian setting.

John told Deborah Knight a lot of changes were made.

“We actually did a couple of runs of the play with an American accent.

“It just heightened the stakes a bit and made us a bit more brash maybe, a bit more confrontational, than Australians tend to be.”

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