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...so people feel the y're

really in their filthy street.

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We'll ha ve posters, recent political

slogans, all jumbled up.

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At the back, a grocer's shop,

with nothing to sell, of course.

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Everything in the hall must

e xpress what we talk about.

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Two policemen can patrol the rows

and stare at the a udience.

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An end to passive watching, actors

and public isolated from each other.

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The public must pla y an active part.

The da ys of the peepshow are o ver.

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The actor is only one element

of the performance...

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...not it's focal point.

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The hall, lights, walls, mo vements,

sounds, all must blend into a whole.

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Only then shall we ha ve real theater.

The workers need total theater.

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One that shocks and arouses.

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I am the widow Queck, who cannot

pa y the rent. I work for the baker.

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It's the only wa y I can feed

my se ven hungry children.

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The half-hour has to be paid for.

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We've been waiting half an hour.

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Here reigns logic and hunger.

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I already owe you 31 marks

and 25 pfennigs.

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I've had nothing these past few da ys.

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Silly goose!

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Sabotaging our work!

Do you think I don't know why?

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Miklas or one of his damn party

friends has put you up to it!

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- What do you want from me?

- Why don't you prompt her?!

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Ne ver mind! Re volutionary Theatre

can't be staged with pro vincial hams.

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With amateurs, you can't

create any sort of theatre.

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Even re volutions need professionals!

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I'll buy you a drink to celebrate.

Re volutionary Theater is a big flop.

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You're beside yourself with jo y.

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Hello.

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Two stiff ones, Hansemann.

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How about another

rebellious e vening?

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I'd like to invite you to dinner.

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What, me?

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- Good morning.

- Morning.

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You're still half asleep.

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I'm awake.

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I've e ven phoned our grocer, he's

a bit impatient o ver our large bill.

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I'm sorry. I don't present a picture

of early morning freshness.

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If I, too, went riding e very morning

I'd probably look more attractive.

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But in our circles,

such noble sport is not customary.

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The offended husband, as in Molire.

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Oh, be quiet.

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It's not customary to sit all night

at a Nazi thug's table.

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- Miklas is not a thug.

- All Nazis are thugs.

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You must a void their company.

Their dirt rubs off on you.

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But you can't understand. It's your

family's well known liberalism.

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No political beliefs, just curiosity.

Ideologies are psychological quirks.

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I feel sorry for Miklas. He gets

small parts and earns very little.

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You all treat him very badly. He's

at a loss, that's why he's with them.

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So much understanding

for that lousy brat.

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How do you think the y'd treat us

if the y came to power?

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God forbid.

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And yet you sit and chat with him.

It's you bourgeois tolerance.

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This understanding of one's enemy.

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I'm sure you could e ven

e x cuse Fascist terrorism.

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Your liberalism might e ven

get used to dictatorship.

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No, thank you.

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Ma y I remark...

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...it's common practice to eat an egg

from its shell and with salt.

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I know, in the Bruckner household

you eat it from a glass...

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...with six spices,

and that's very original...

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...but no need to make fun of those

unaccustomed to such originality.

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- Who's juvenile lead in Halberstadt?

- Herbert Boltz.

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Where's

Ms. Trkheim-Gawernitz now?

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I n Heidelberg.

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- And Hannelore Khn.

- Mannheim.

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- And who's Othello there?

- Max Kra use.

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- And lago?

- Johannes Fiedler.

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- And Desdemona in Leipzig?

- Kthe Mttel.

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Who's the ingnue in Jena?

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A stupid cow called Lotte Lindenthal.

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Why is Lotte Lindenthal a stupid cow?

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I don't know, but she is.

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I know why you insult her.

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She's the friend of

a National Socialist leader.

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I'm only moderately interested

in the names and titles of her lo vers.

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Must be quite a long list...

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Watch your tongue, Hfgen!

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You won't insult a lady beca use she's

in the Nazi German worker's party...

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...and the friend of a German hero.

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You won't stand for it?

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My, my...

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Stop it, you're drunk.

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I'm not. On the contrary.

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Apparently I'm the only one here

with a spark of honor left.

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Nobody in this Jew-ridden business

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