Theater
misalliance
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My break in the larger theaters in Seattle came early for me luckily. I got into the Intiman Theater doing a George Bernard Shaw play called Misalliance. (clip) I played a very rich and effeminate suitor to a fiery, strong woman who wants something better. And I talked like this (adopts foppish accent), and I just wasn't anything, any admirer that any woman would want to marry." And it was just delicious. Shaw is just...you just sit there out in wicker chairs out in front of the audience and talk with somebody else and sling out these zingers on humans, and just cut human beings to ribbons in a very funny way and everyone laughs. If you get the style right, it's a little effortless and really powerful. Shaw is really, God, he's really powerful - I love him - and still offensive to this day. He can still get offensive. But when Shaw first started doing this stuff they burned his theater down, or tried to. He would incite street riots. (clip) When he put women in pants or he had a woman fly in on an airplane and parachute into the theater and go, "HELLO! (puts hands on hips a la superhero) Da da da DA! Started a street riot, yeah, how dare he? Yeah, yeah...fabulous. JM.com 2007 ***
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