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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I love Kimberly. Here we go awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
See, I need people to guide me because you know,
if I was, if I was ten years old, now
they have me on so many drugs, I'd be a
oh oh O.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
C D A c r Q PNG whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The initial first thing I do is film with drugs,
Film with drugs, my day.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
But you guys have some good questions on break for
Roberts a shoe. So I have a question for you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Tell me, like, give me an example, what is your
next production? What's it about?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Tell our next productory line? Well, our next production is
our festival. So the festival is meant to be a
place where people where artists, where playwrights who feel marginalized
because their point of view is not accepted by mainstream
theater companies who are who lean left. They send me
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their plays and I look through. I get one hundred
app play submissions when I call for plays, I look
through these and I choose four because we want to
make it a quick and enjoyable evening. And I choose
four plays based on some criteria. One is that they
can't be they can't be too long. They have to
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be four short pieces. Fifteen twenty minutes each, Okay, so
we make it, make it very quick. They can't have
a cast of thousands, They can't have you know, big
set changes and all kinds of things, because we can't
accommodate that, and we can't afford it, honestly. So so
I look for that, but I also look for plays
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that are going to adhere to the criteria that I
set for what I want these plays to be about. Okay,
so here's what I don't want, all right. I don't
want plays of somebody saying my life is miserable, life
is miserable. I can't get a date, I'm gonna have
to dull myself with drugs and alcohol because I'm such
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a good person, but nobody really understands me. I don't
want those plays. I don't want the oh, I go
through men like you know, a child goes through cookies
or vice versa, a man saying that I go through Yeah,
I bang this woman and I did this. I'm not
on her front door. That's yeah, Well that's you know,
the boot story. I don't I don't want that stuff.
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That's that's boring, you know. So we don't want any
of that. I don't want to hear again. Life is miserable,
The world is miserable, this country is miserable. That we're
racist and homophobic, et cetera, et cetera. I want to
see some more positive things doesn't mean I don't I
want Pollyanna. It just means that I want to see
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some hope and redemption. What's the matter, where's Pollyanna? Oh well, Pollyanna?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Okay, Well, when you talk.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
About Pollyanna love to hang that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, you know when you talk about Pollyanna, you're thinking
it's like almost like a perfect world. Okay, So I'm
not saying that we live in a Pollyannish world, or
that I'm presenting Pollyannish plays. What I'm presenting is plays
where where you're seeing conflict, of course, because all plays
have conflict, but the conflicts at the end are resolved,
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and it may not necessarily be resolved in a positive way.
In other words, there could be death, there could be suffering,
but there's meaning behind it. I see what we see today,
and give me a chance to talk here, boots. But
I got a question about Okay, okay, well I'll tell
you in a second. But what we see in art
in contemporary art is suffering for the sake of suffering
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that things that make it darker. You know, I was
watching it seems like I watched a lot of television.
I was watching Miracle on thirty fourth Street, the original,
and I was reading about that they remade it a
few years ago. They and I was like, why, what's
wrong with the original? Why can't we still with the original?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And the fact?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Am I boring you? And the fact is she's doing
in my face, folks, And the fact is they made
it darker. Why does everything that's remade have to be
made remade darker?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Money?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But why people don't want to see that?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But they do because the only reason that they make
these there's no market without a buyer.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That's true, but evil cells. It's a sad that's true.
But you know, but look how often the Hollywood companies
like Disney puts out things that are darker or more
disturbing and they bomb.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
They haven't and the christ people's faces.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Right, Yeah, I don't think people really do. I think
it's like what you said on that documentary that you made.
I mean, most people are kind of in the middle
or lean right now. They don't want that stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
When you get people out of crowds. Now, in crowds,
they're usually left right when you pull them out, they're almost.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Always heart guys.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
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Speaker 1 (05:30):
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Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yes, and I want to know what productions are coming
up from stage.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Right, well that we do have our in January. At
the end of January we have our tenth and court
tell a little guy.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I said, Hi, sorry, Oh, I got the cute little
boy in the world, so oh wonderful good boy.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Packs he loves you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I know my dude.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, see it's stage right Theatrix. We have our four
shows going on with this part of our annual theater festival.
It's our tenth annual January thirtieth and thirty first at
seven thirty and February first at one thirty at the
Abbey Theater of Dublin. If you go to stage rt
dot org you will find out all about it and
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you can see the link to buy tickets. Then at
the end of March, I just got a crook in
my back. At the end of March, we've got step
up at the hall chair. Yeah. At the end of March,
we are going to produce two short early plays by
Tennessee Williams as part of our before they were God's program.
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Who plays that? Trust me Tennessee Williams. You know Tennessee Williams.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Don't you Country Singer?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Not that Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams the author of Katana
Hot ten Rue, Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie,
among many other plays. Well, this is These are two
of his very early plays before he was a household name,
and we're producing those as part of our celebration of
Tennessee Williams. In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
All my people that are just gear heads like me,
I will say I had a blast when I came
to one of your events, and you will too, folks, Yeah,
I think you will too, regardless of your say you
only watch I say football, Well, take your bride out
and have a good night and do something different and
you will actually enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And I don't know if you get that a lot,
but I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And your actors were amazing, and you do get the
best of the best, and any actor out there that
could be listening six ten at left. But if you
have someone in your family, you're not going to say,
are you a Trumpster? You're not going to do that.
How's your acting abilities? That's make it a good that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Just the love of theater, that's all. I don't care
who you are. Let's talk about you for a second.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Me.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I share my stories with everybody. Everybody knows my DNA.
It drives my girl crazy. But here's the thing about you.
What were you like in fifth grade and you were
in the first little play or.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Or when I started you know what? When I was
when I was a kid, I was very I was very,
very shy and reserved and I did well in school
in elementary school and you were shy, oh yeah, oh yeah.
I was petrifuzedc outing my own shadow.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Did you have a big buddy? It stuck up for
you because I stuck up for guys.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I wasn't bullied. Really, I really wasn't bullied. I just
wasn't part of the in crowd. And then in fourth grade,
I broke out of my shell and started performing in
front of the class, which is something I always wanted
to do but I started to do. Was first performance,
I did an impersonation of Ed Sullivan.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Can you still do it? Or really?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Big? Drawight here on our stage we have boots. Yeah,
So I did Ed Sullivan and the class loved it,
and I used to perform. I became class president, nice
and I had a lot of friends, you know, and
more people were drawn to me, and my grades went
into the sewer because.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Time were always there, so i'd safe.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Really. So yeah, so you you majored in subterranean sanitation shop,
would shop and metal shop and auto mechanics and gym
and weightlifting technology. I get straight a's weightlifting technology. Football
coach is a technology story thing, So you know, well,
I didn't do any of that, or if I did,
I didn't do it well. So my grades really I
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started to not care because I just wanted to have
fun and I just wanted to, you know, not not
really apply myself. And then I didn't apply myself until
about eighth grade, when I was in junior high school,
when there was a young lady there who I was
enamored with, and she was a straight A student, and
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I said, she's not going to pay the slightest attention
to me unless I was also a straight A s
tell me you're married to her right now? No I'm not. No, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That'd be a good story.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That would be a good story. Now now my current
marriage is not a good story. But no, I don't
mean that. And anyway, so I became a much better student,
and since then when I was in school, I always
did very well in school because it just became part
of my DNA.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Your dad said you down when you had your first girlfriend, said, son,
don't buy the whole gallon. Get as many cones you
can out of your system before you buy the whole
gallon of Sherbert.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That was the point I could tell you that my
father talked colorfully because he was from Brooklyn, Okay, but
he never said that. No, I don't think I ever
had that kind of a conversation with my father. No,
never did.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Was the birds and the bees rough on you? Or
just not do it?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I still to this day don't know the story. No.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
No, my dad threw a box condoms and the sock
draw and said, don't knock anybody up or all this
own your dumb you know what. And I was like, okay, well,
you know, and I sold him to my friends because
I wasn't gonna useage Adam. I sent twenty five cents
a piece out of them, so I was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, sh shouldn't I do it? No, I never had
that conversation that I recall. You know, I didn't date
much and and I you know, it just wasn't a thing.
I don't I don't know. I don't want to tell
you I was boring.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
In New York.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
When you get your turn sixteen, that's when your driver's
license can get you driving.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So no, no, no, eighteen eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So when did you start driving then?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Eighteen?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But were you scared of death being in New York?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Uh? Well, I'll tell you, if you learn how to
drive in New York, you can drive anywhere. Oh, I
bet so. I learned. I learned mostly from a good
friend of mine. He would take me out in his
car and let me go driving around.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And what was your first car you ever, rund.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I owned a nineteen seventy Chevy Impala four door, four door,
big beef, big red, with a black vinyl top.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And had a four hundred small block. I'd love to
get my hands on that. I'd take it apart, take
the drive train out of it.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
But well, I mean, who wouldn't. Yeah, but I bought
that car from six hundred dollars from a neighbor friend
and that was my friend. And you know that was
when you get the first bar. That was my liberation.
I had to borrow the money to get I borrowed
some from the boss, the guy I was working with,
and from my friend who taught me how to drive
a car. I borrowed money from them and I paid
them back and I had that car for a couple
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of years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was my first.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Thing is amazing. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
If you're ever at a standstill with someone trying to
get to know them. I don't care who it is
or what they are. You ask them what the first
car they ever owned, especially our generation, they will tell
you what they paid for it, who they bought it from,
how they got the money, what color it was, what
it was, and what happened to it.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, it finally just disintegrated and.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Guess what walls down.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So like, if if you're ever talking to someone's confrontation,
I'm telling you, especially the dudes, you throw that at
him instant, buddy, a little bit of bat.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
If anybody comes after me like I'm gonna kick your
you know what s before you do? What was the
first cal owned?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
They'd be like, you know what they do? Why would
you ask me that? But yeah, it seventy two Mavericks.
We'll go to break one more segment with Robert when
we get back, and we're gonna pump on how to
take advantage of his theater because he walks very very good.
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