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Freakonomics Radio
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416, if you've got your hands in the air, why don't you play Frankenstein? 293, you can be the bride of Frankenstein. You stand here. You come over there. You be the bride of Frankenstein, and you be Frankenstein. I want you to walk over there like Frankenstein and say that you love 2093.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
They love the letters in Malcolm's office, Lady Macbeth's letters. They love to wear Lady Macduff's fur coat. They love the nurse's jacket. They love Macbeth's coat that he gets hung in.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
Some people's actions are just, they can be sincere too, or they offer one of them at best a towel while they're in the bathtub washing off the blood. And the most sincere gesture possible. Is it moving? Yeah, it really can be. The intent behind anything can really move you. It just depends on why they're doing it.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
Somebody else has a crap night. Do you guys then have a post-mortem afterwards?
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
When we all collect in the elevator at the end, they're just unreeling the nights. Did you see this person in that dress? Did you see that guy in that polka dot shirt? Can you believe what he did? He took this, he took that. Everybody's just unleashing it all.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
I think it's very telling of who you are and how you interpret those first instructions that you get. You know, keep your mask on, don't talk, don't use your cell phone. Fortune favors the bold. And people enter in and some people just can't handle instructions. They can't handle limitations. They want to talk and you just told them they can't, so they will.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
And other people are excited by the fact that they get to be anonymous for three hours.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
It's sort of like a choose your own adventure. So you're sort of forced to like forge your own path around the building and find different scenes.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
I had a woman, I was performing a solo in the box and like a crowd filled watching this thing. And for whatever reason, this woman decided she was going to throw objects at the glass and she found anything. And there's not much in this room you can pick up and throw, but she found it all.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
She found, she went in our drawer, picked up the lipstick, the fur, anything, the wet t-shirts and just started chucking it as hard as she could at the glass. And, um, Fortunately, I was behind glass. I just kept going with what I was doing.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
Don't you really want to know what's going on in that person's mind then? Or do you just, well, I guess in the moment you're just trying to survive the scene.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
I was in shock. Just like, you're really making that choice right now. Why? Why would you even think that that's what needs to be done right now? And am I making you mad? Are you trying to mess with me? What's going on? So I just tried to stay in character. And the steward that's in this room, of course, went to try and stop her. And she just, she was like, oh, I didn't know.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
I just completely clueless.
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
Meanwhile, me and all these other spectators were just like, huh?
Freakonomics Radio
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
I know, I keep giving them shocks. Continue, please. I'm up to 390.