The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen talks with theater director Wilson Milam about the challenges of staging a Broadway play with the kind of violence normally reserved for Quentin Tarantino movies. The actors wielding guns and knives on stage don’t have the luxury of second takes, and the fake blood has to be edible.

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