We're Still Obsessed with Shakespeare w/ Abigail Thorn
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The Conflict of Audiences in Theater
I do really get that, that friction because some people go to see them because it is a new production of Hamlet and they've seen every Hamlet they possibly could for the last 50 years. And then you do get that real clash of audiences where there is a kind of, I suppose you talked a little bit about the perception of Shakespeare but but theater has it more generally as well in terms of when do you clap and when do you shut up. It's one thing to come in late in a movie theater because you're not going to affect the movie the movie is the same whether you come in on time or not. But if you come in late during the show and you
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