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and those who haven't seen it yet orphans is about to
our brothers than skinny played by Ben Tom
on who are living in Philadelphia I been placed treaties sorta
pretty certain menacing kinda petty thief and
Tom places younger brother fill up who's been basis for the shot and then this
home
and when the play starts in the second seen it turns out that treat has
essentially sort of kid that word in sort of kidnapped
a I a man if we don't really know
who years as the character played by allocate turns out to be a man named
harold was for a lot of reasons
reasons to want to be I to be staying in this house to be sort of
hiding out and out this is a means very much a three-man
ensemble play what's what's needed for
for an ensemble play to work on stage
it would always works best when you have people who can
hit the ball back you now and I came into this
I'm I don't get to do this very often it's a shame I just don't get the two
places much as I'd like to
so when I do this i really wanna make it count and I'm very fragile about
who I do it with you know it's kinda weird I was make a joke I say acting is
like sex when I was younger I would do with anyone
I
older I'm very more more MORE particular nah
there
for have both been tested before right so I but by the in the a.m
I'm I really a when all this came together the way it did
it was yeah I was I was excited can we go out there
every night and a he's
different and some section of the show something happens
he says something and I any what's wonderful because
you think you'd want to have this kind have reliability where everybody is the
same here and you could depend on that not at all
and he's different every night and it keeps you on your toes is very very
organic
very real every night to see this peace this piece
lends itself to where you can you can you can play the scenes
and moments inside the scenes as dark course communication as you like
but not all that many what about that guy's a min to
the degree to which we talked a little I don't making false comparisons between
film and theatre but is there I don't know is there any sort of a different
kind of vitality that you get from
theater work then you've got nicely from from film
I fatalities my word on if there's a difference
I thinking about everything because it is a question you can toss
like I could refinance and then for me
person I think a lot of as they do with with in fits in your
left with more time uninterrupted to be the character
no matter how method you are as an actor on a film set
you cannot suspend your disbelief there is a machine for interview
like recording you there is a guy you know offering you coffee
like even if you're you know by amateur mature amateur mature about shit like
in hand it's like you're not from good
I but whereas in a play you know
a and then when you are a picture it's for two minutes 19 seconds
wanna play with left alone for two hours
being budgets ahead and I i mean that's
for me there is a big difference and it does
executive because of the two minutes 19 seconds
you kind if you why these I do you ID forget
and I start the kind of be in the world and that
us interesting yeah the cost is higher
you at this point would-be would be done with
so be going home are taking a vacation to be gonna
looking for my next job right now show as an open your
and that cost like emotional as well as physical
I'm laid out after this one I'm laid out flat a
and after two shows a day its it's a different kind of endurance
at the same time it there the v the good days are when I'm laid out flat the bad
days are when I'm up
after show so the cost is higher
the reward is different and I'm I'm so grateful for this
experience just as a male it's not even as an
artistry as an actor is just as a man because it demand some things that I've
never
had the a I believe the internal structure to handle
so to work among these men
Dan Sullivan Anna a about calling friends alone while cast these these are
these are these are beast
what it would have been the biggest differences for you in terms of working
in theatre in London which you've done plenty have
and work in New York what is what are some other things that have stood out to
you
I think in we approach it in a similar way
think the biggest difference to me was the audition I City I was back
in England I key senate the director
inning and curve tricks you into thinking you might get the job
and I week ago when we procrastinate for a while
you in the direct yeah actually going on tonight
he said talk about the playwright's finally think I have retired
own backyard any computers I thought you were reading you know your athletic
yeah pretend that's not what it's about
yeah and sitting on a reason part of my
less money inflows Chancel Choir enjoy your experience here because why I
or whereas here is City terrified
ira I remember walking I want since I think was the I'm TC
I I want to encourage thinking that felt this is the same thing and I i I went
into the
to VM guy a task that I hi I'm Thomas it down
news like yeah sign in a min that answer to look to that just
let's the hundreds I hundreds name but I was like
okay with this is this must be like people walk in the building scored
current one ends I know what I want in and actually there were
100 guy I my seats and like American actors I think I approach things like
I mean upset and I work prize well lit up yeah they're all the things that I
points
like really angry and came back saying the lines I'm shouting and
like I was just led the most intimidates yeah
and actually I all all look like they were going in tonight said
West soul with the director I for
as a reference eventually sitting in my seat human all these guys around me
wave hi I'm def door like it here
you the other auditions through the door I
everyone just like boring it hours what's I just a
I know I don't really know why I'm doing at that stage
do you remember remember what that would do what it was like the what you're
reading was like if you felt like you've done it well if you were so like
one of posi- yeah I don't know I just I remember wanting to get out of hazardous
has jumped out at me from from you from growing up my brother went on to play
professional football but to do when you
you played football in high school yeah did you ever have to choose between
playing football like doing a play like the fall I did you know that
I guessing I'm guessing what was it by what I was I didn't say in the drama
completed like mister roberts.
classic high school yeah he's awful
well I don't want to be cliche about above the drama teacher I will remain
nameless
from he was this man who came up to me
panies said why don't you get some those football players to come and play
sailors in our profession
caught up we could get
have your friends from the team to come
and I said no mister so-and-so eyes and
and I never went to basketball practice thanks so what do you guys wanna mean
the drama club you
group for profits I consonants sale is on the boat they look to me like their I
was crazy there was that weird chasm between
I drama club writer 40m
remember what my Catholic High School weather how did you end up doing mister
roberts. do yes
and we did a school with it now monkey's paw law right mister roberts. we did all
these
the things that what is mister roberts. was mister roberts.
to me clint what is mister roberts.
it's the hamlet of the American you on
I
yeah it's it's it's a it's a drama that was mean to you
degree it's a wonderful place pic I are doing a production for next year you're
not good right
sometimes with the same age as you were when you were in
in limb do you see any of the kind I told you and Tom
1 August Thomas M A and more Tom
I'm has done a good bit a theater
and kinds three-phase America but you come from a family and you come from a
I'm speaking time for and
I come here but I come from I V comes my theatrical family comes from the UK work
as a we say the further
East you go more respect they have for the theater from LA on the New York on
the London and I'm
and a the I'm a you remember
one-time are
I mean literally nothing like some executive at a film company when I did
streetcar
and abandon some other work I might have done to do streetcar
this guy was like what we want to play for you to play on broadway we want to
apply for
he was it because they worry me that a movie deal before they're ready made the
movie with the with the guys that what you guys and grant
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando the women would have the fact that they remain
with them
for and on Mike's I remember the site leaders over the
really horrifying I'm how that
in my life I always had to um
you know say to myself that the theater was
a different animal in a different world in a different set of values and so
forth and a
and I want to hear that hope thing about you know like dissing
the movies I did a TV show for seven years recently which was a great
experience but
I always find the I come back to this because
button its it's more gratifying
really is more graph
from them