:05:00
Bravo!
:05:04
Oh, my good lord, yonder's...
:05:08
Bravo!
:05:10
Bravo, Mr Kynaston!
:05:12
...foul murders done!
:05:14
- Bravo!
- Well done, Mr Kynaston!
:05:17
Bravo!
:05:19
Kynaston! Kynaston!
:05:26
Oh, my good lord,
yonder's foul murders done.
:05:33
It's the same every bloody show!
:05:36
- It's not working.
- What do you mean?
:05:38
I'm trying to get to the end.
They're shouting, "Kynaston!"
:05:41
We haven't finished the show
for three weeks.
:05:43
- Fucking Ned Kynaston!
- Not again, Dickie!
:05:45
It's my scene his fans ruin.
:05:47
My entrance! My lines!
:05:49
Emilia dies too, you know.
:05:51
- Dear boy, I had no idea.
- That does it.
:05:53
- I serve my notice, Mr Betterton. I quit!
Mr Kynaston!
:05:57
Mr K! Mr K, you were brilliant!
:06:00
Such eyes, such hair,
such lips and voice to thrill.
:06:03
Surely you were the most beautiful
woman in the house.
:06:06
- See, Pepys likes it.
- I'm talking about my death scene.
:06:09
Something eludes me.
A gesture, a tone.
:06:11
You know what, Tommy?
I'm dying too soon.
:06:13
There's an actor for you.
My death scene doesn't go on long enough.
:06:17
Grasp the fact, Mr Kynaston.
:06:19
The performance is a grand success.
:06:21
What I don't grasp is this.
The King comes to the show last week...
:06:25
- This is Othello?
- This is Othello.
:06:27
And he says, the King says,
:06:28
"Bravo, Betterton.
:06:30
Wonderful show.
Lots of thrills and chills.
:06:33
We're coming again, Saturday next.
One question, though.
:06:36
Could you make it cheerier?"
:06:38
"Cheerier?" says I. "Yes," he said.
"Just make it a little bit more jolly."
:06:43
So I say,
:06:44
"Your Majesty, Shakespeare ends his play
with Desdemona strangled,
:06:48
Emilia stabbed,
and Othello disembowelling himself.
:06:51
Do you suggest we do away with all that?"
:06:53
"Oh, no," he says, "kill 'em all.
Just make it jollier."
:06:56
What none of you glean
:06:58
is that the King is expressing
a particularly salient view of the stage.