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PACINO:
It has always been a dream of mine...
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... to communicate how I feel
about Shakespeare to other people.
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So I asked my friend Frederic Kimball,
who is an actor and a writer...
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... and also our colleagues
Michael Hadge...
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... and James Bulleit, to join me.
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And by taking this one play,
Richard III...
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... analyzing it, approaching it
from different angles...
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... putting on costumes,
playing out scenes...
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... we could communicate
both our passion for it...
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... our understanding
that we've come to...
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... and in doing that...
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... communicate a Shakespeare
that is about how we feel...
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... and how we think today. That's
the effort we're gonna give it here.
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KIMBALL:
We've done Richard three times. Twice.
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You did it at the Studio, we've done it
in Boston and on Broadway.
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At least, the head start is that
I've done it. You've done it.
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- But the problem, Frederic...
KIMBALL: The audience hasn't done it.
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- They haven't done it.
- It's a difficult play.
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PACINO: If someone were to ask you
about Richard III...
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...what would you remember about it?
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To be honest, I really don't remember
that much, if anything at all.
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PACINO: Did you know that Richard III
had a deformed arm and a deformed back?
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- No, I didn't.
PACINO: You didn't know that?
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The play, Richard III,
about the guy with the humpback?
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- No.
- You got me there.
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Mm-mm.
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PACINO: He was a humpback? "A
horse. A horse. My kingdom for a horse"?
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- That comes from Richard III.
MAN 5: It does, yes.
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I mean, nobody knows
who Richard III is.
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- Nobody.
HADGE: It's a tough play to get.
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The relationships between
those characters.
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- Who can keep it straight?
- Well, I think the question is...
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...what is the understanding?
I mean, the understanding is...
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It's a simply... Can you
follow the story line and the plot?