:25:05
What a charming playhouse!
:25:07
What a fine profession!
:25:08
It would be,
if it fed us properly.
:25:14
"Speak to me!"
About nothing, probably!
:25:18
This fop here?
:25:20
- You're on!
- Yes, young man?
:25:22
Remember, post the fines.
"Seraphin, two francs:
:25:25
On-stage drunk and swearing."
:25:28
There they go again!
:25:31
- What's got into them?
- They sense a storm brewing.
:25:35
You can't imagine! My theater
is torn by hatred and jealousy.
:25:40
We perform on a volcano.
:25:41
This isn't pantomime,
it's a vendetta, a corrida.
:25:45
They're worse than
the Horatii and the Curiatti.
:25:49
- Worse than...
- The Montagues and the Capulets.
:25:51
- Never heard of them!
- It's Shakespeare. Romeo...
:25:54
Don't know him!
:25:56
Alas, few know
and appreciate Shakespeare.
:26:00
Who knows you?
Who appreciates you?
:26:03
What do you want?
I keep asking you!
:26:07
What I want...
:26:08
I want to act.
:26:11
Act! Act!
:26:13
You have the wrong house.
We're not allowed to act here.
:26:17
We walk on our hands.
:26:19
I can do that.
:26:21
And you know why?
They bully us.
:26:23
Why? They fear us.
:26:25
If we put on plays,
they'd have to close
:26:29
their great, noble theaters!
:26:31
Their public is bored to death
:26:35
by museum pieces, dusty tragedies
and declaiming mummies
:26:38
who never move!
:26:40
But the Funambules
is full of life, movement!
:26:44
Extravaganzas!
Appearances, disappearances,
:26:47
like in real life!
:26:49
And then... wham!... the kick,
:26:51
wham!... the slapstick...
like in real life!
:26:54
And the audience!
:26:55
Sure, they're poor,
but they're pure gold.
:26:58
Look, up there