When that piece of cheese is around, you're gonna go...
I just had a croissant. You saw me eat a croissant!
But, as I said, it's good butter. It's not bad butter.
I imagine, being part of
Shakespeare's company, if you're in it long enough
you move up...and you take on
the different roles as you match it with life.
So I suppose I didn't think about
Falstaff because, like Falstaff, I didn't
want to think I was gonna be there.
But here we are!  You know...
This is what I get from Falstaff is life is worth living
in spite of the exigencies of life and how horrible it is.
Here's a guy who's lived his life and hasn't reformed.
He says, like, "Oh, I'll clean up my
act. I will get better." Because that is so human.
So human, right?
I mean, I know that.
Right?
"I'll quit drinking, I'll quit smoking, I'll quit doing drugs, I'll quit...I'll quit this..."
I won't eat...I'm going to cut out the bread. I'm going to cut out the white foods...
I'm off dairy.
Exactly! Exactly...
But when that piece of cheese is around, you're gonna go...
I just had a croissant. You saw me eat a croissant before!
But, as I said, it's good butter. It's not bad butter.
[laughing] It's good butter...
You just forgive him so much because he's such a good time.
And expects to get privilege out of that, right?
Yeah.
So then the political and the personal in the play...
They match, right? Because in some
ways the folks that are expecting some
king that they're not getting...
Right...
And this is some sort of reflection on that.
The Percys...how much they talk about how this King is ungrateful...
they were the king-makers and they put
Henry the Fourth on the throne...
And then we see Falstaff preparing Hal.
I'm putting Hal on the throne.
And putting you on the throne, what are you going to do for me?
What's in it for me?
Well, it's politics.
Well, that's what I think!
So I think this city actually has a bead
on what these plays are about because I
think of them as political war plays.
Totally.
And, you know, the Supreme Court across the street and the Capitol down the road.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
I think it's gonna be great fun because
I think that we also are very simpatico about how we approach the text and the story...
So I think it's a good match.
It's great.
It's a good match...do you have questions for us?
