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Austin Tichenor: Antony and Cleopatra is not some Alka-Seltzer commercial! It’s a romantic thriller about a geo-political power struggle between Egypt and Rome.
Adam Long: [looks at audience] Oh yeah, like you knew, you were all laughing.
[to Austin]
Adam Long: I’m sorry, I apologize, I apologize, you know. If I had known this was Shakespeare’s geo-political play, I wouldn’t have screwed around with it, because my favorite plays are his geo-political plays.
Austin Tichenor: Really, really?
Adam Long: No, seriously, they’re intense, man. Like, um, what was that one he wrote about nuclear energy in the former Soviet Union?
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: No, no…
Adam Long: It was way ahead of its time. It was a metaphor… wrapped in an allegory.
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [shakes heads] No…
Adam Long: It was intense, man. It was called “Chernobyl Kinsmen,” and it was all about this…
Reed Martin: [interrupts] Adam, Adam, Shakespeare wrote a play called
[holding up two fingers]
Reed Martin: “Two Noble Kinsmen.”
Austin Tichenor: Not “Chernobyl Kinsmen.”
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [holding up two fingers] “Two Noble Kinsmen.”
Adam Long: It was “cher.”
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: It was “two.”
Adam Long: Cher, cher, cher…
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: [simultaneously] Two, two, two…
Adam Long: Cher, cher… what’s “Two Noble Kinsmen?”
Austin Tichenor: “Two Noble Kinsmen” is about a girl who goes insane with the fear that her boyfriend is going to be eaten by wolves and her father hanged.
Adam Long: [pause] And is Boris Yeltsin in it?
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor: NO!
