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In this first workshop on King Lear the director looks at some crucial scenes in which the development of the King's madness and its causes and significance, can be closely examined.
| 51 | 00:03:59,000 | 00:04:03,000 | (John Russell-Brown) I'd like to see you do it with the other decision, |
| 52 | 00:04:04,000 | 00:04:11,000 | (John Russell-Brown) so that you use "darkest" in the most openest way, |
| 53 | 00:04:11,000 | 00:04:16,000 | just take it as secret, and you just feed yourself the knowledge which you have… |
| 54 | 00:04:16,000 | 00:04:25,000 | ..within yourself, it will be not shown in the expressive quality of "dark or "crawl", |
| 55 | 00:04:26,000 | 00:04:27,000 | (John Russell-Brown) it will be shown in the way in which… |
| 56 | 00:04:28,000 | 00:04:31,000 | (John Russell-Brown) you are capable of keeping your own attention inside it. |
| 57 | 00:04:32,000 | 00:04:37,000 | Julian Glover: That's right, and also of watching them all the time for what they're doing. |
| 58 | 00:04:38,000 | 00:04:44,000 | And you come to this extraordinary word – "love" – and what are they going to do about it. |
| 59 | 00:04:45,000 | 00:04:48,000 | Julian Glover: How will these mere underlings cope with this one? |
| 60 | 00:04:48,000 | 00:04:50,000 | (John Russell-Brown) Yes. -Julian Glover: Because I'm just about to give you the world. |
| 61 | 00:04:50,000 | 00:04:54,000 | John Russell-Brown: Yes. Do you see if you play against that sub-text, |
| 62 | 00:04:54,000 | 00:04:59,000 | I mean externally in the words. I think it tingles with that kind of consciousness… |
| 63 | 00:04:59,000 | 00:05:01,000 | ..which comes right down- |
| 64 | 00:05:01,000 | 00:05:02,000 | (Julian Glover) Are you saying technically speaking, |
| 65 | 00:05:02,000 | 00:05:07,000 | that you're suggesting that it should be rather blander? |
| 66 | 00:05:07,000 | 00:05:09,000 | (John Russell-Brown) Yes. -Julian Glover: And more ordinary? |
| 67 | 00:05:09,000 | 00:05:12,000 | (John Russell-Brown) Yes. But inside your mind is very quick, |
| 68 | 00:05:13,000 | 00:05:17,000 | (John Russell-Brown) your eyes are watchful and you are feeding on the ironies… |
| 69 | 00:05:18,000 | 00:05:21,000 | (John Russell-Brown) ..as you go through. Show as little of it as you can, |
| 70 | 00:05:22,000 | 00:05:26,000 | (John Russell-Brown) except in the efficiency with which you speak. |
| 71 | 00:05:26,000 | 00:05:29,000 | (Julian Glover) Right. -John Russell-Brown: Just try it, see if that can be done. |
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