SSanjay
You know what you should do?
What?
SSanjay
Go crazy!
...I was really hoping you'd say something constructive.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Look, if this is about Henry...what's done is done. And it's better this way. Jerry knows all the lines. He'll be fine.
Geoffrey, the only reason that we're selling any tickets at all is because of Henry Breedlove.
He is defying my direction, he's in another play entirely, and he's infected the whole cast. Now I know you're worried about your job—
Geoffrey, I am worried about the future of the entire festival. Now: what is the point of putting on a play if no one comes to see it?
Which would you prefer: an empty house with a great play, or a full house with a piece of garbage?
GARBAGE! GARBAGE! I want GARBAGE!
[Nahum has just helped Geoffrey to lock a furious Ellen into her dressing room.]
Why are you doing this?!
I must confess, I love drama.
Look at you, Geoffrey: you look positively disease-free!
Eh, it's the hair-do.
[singing] When life takes its toll, when fate treats you bad, you used to be king, but now you've been had, alone with your Fool, you think you'll go mad— it's nice to take a walk in the rain! A stomp through a storm is what I'd advise, when people you trust tell nothing but lies; and kidnap your friend and gouge out his eyes—it's nice to take a walk in the rain! Your older daughters are evil plotters; a pitter-patter shower will keep you sane. When all has been said and all have been slain, it's good to take a walk in the rain, for several hours. Helps to have a howl in the rain, without your clothes on. Nice to take a walk in the rain.
I must say, I've fallen in love with the musical genre. It's the art-form of the common man. If you want to communicate something with the proletariat, cover it in sequins and make it sing. It's noisy, vulgar and utterly meaningless—I love it!
AMAndrew McTeague
You know, I just got these fish and I can't, I can't stop looking at them. I find them oddly soothing. Fish live in the now, as they say. We can learn from the fish.
[giving direction during rehearsal] Megan, I'm going to stop you there. You're singing to David, the man you love, the man who pays you to have sex with him. Obviously the emotions contained within these relationships are complex.
Music is manipulative on a level few of us can fully appreciate. I visited a lab in Rotterdam and I saw a chimpanzee driven to a state of sexual ecstasy, simply by listening to a C major seventh chord played over and over. I saw, I saw it with my own eyes.
Sing the duet by yourself, let's see how that feels.
Well, I have a little something that might cheer you up.
You found a gun?
I have a responsibility to the entire company, to the festival. This is about theatre ethics.
Theatre ethics? That's like saying "whorehouse morals."
SSophie
She puts bread in the fridge. Who puts bread in the fridge?
PPaul
Dancers apparently.
SSophie
Bread is big. Bread takes up room.
PPaul
It's an insult!
SSophie
It's not like she eats anyway. Have you seen her? Maybe she eats glue. Maybe paste.
BBarbara
This is the theater, not a mental ward!
This theater?
This isn't a sitcom.
GGeoffery
Oh well yes actually, it is. I have a broken wang and there is a lizard queen living downstairs.
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