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Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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"I failed a lot, you know, I made a lot of wrong decisions. I just, I never let my failures end it."

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0:00.0	Before we get to this week's episode, I want to let you know about a really amazing project
0:05.0	that just came out of our home station, WNYC.
0:08.4	Every summer in New York, the public theater puts on free Shakespeare in the park.
0:12.4	It's a big deal.
0:13.8	People basically camp out for tickets.
0:15.4	But of course, this year, due to the pandemic, the performances were canceled.
0:20.3	So the public theater teamed up with WNYC to instead bring the world free Shakespeare
0:25.8	on the radio.
0:27.2	And over a series of four nights, actors brought Shakespeare's political drama Richard
0:31.8	II to the airwaves.
0:33.8	One of those actors is Miriam A. Hyman.
0:36.1	I have an acronym for it, which is hot, H-O-T, honest, open, and truthful.
0:43.7	I just feel like that is what comes through within the work.
0:48.7	I'm just trying to be as connected to the material as possible.
0:54.0	I'm with a writer like Shakespeare.
0:56.4	You know, it's so rich and it's so honest.
1:01.6	If you just communicate the truth of the text, that's it.
1:09.3	Stick around at the end of this episode for an extended excerpt of free Shakespeare
1:13.2	on the radio.
1:14.2	We hope you'll go and find the series in your favorite podcast player.
1:17.7	Okay, here's our show.
1:20.1	I would say my career is just a bunch of upward failures, you know.
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