Robert Bolt

I have.

The Robert Bolt one? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's been a long time.

I watched that in high school, actually, because our English teacher, I think, realized that it would probably be better to test us after watching the movie than expecting we had all read the play, because that was what was assigned for us.

The actor did a good job of realizing him.

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should also say, Robert Bolt, the author of A Man for All Seasons, went on to write Lawrence of Olivier.

So he really had a knack for these kind of period pieces.

partly a Brechtian figure, so breaking the fourth wall, distancing the audience from the fiction.

And the example that Melanie gives is a contrast, which also occurred to me as I was watching it, is the figure of the common man in the original stage production of A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt.

which was completely rewritten in the 1966 film, but also was kind of restored in the 1986-88 TV movie.

And that figure is meant to be a kind of both a link for the audience and also a way of saying, this is not real.

It began at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, which then had a year-round company of actors presenting a new production every two weeks.

My first, fresh from my graduation from Cambridge University, was a revival of A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt's popular retelling of Thomas More's fatal political battle with King Henry VIII.

My part was the hero's son-in-law, young Will Roper.

Sir Ian continued, my debut was inglorious.

Yes.

Robert Bolt wrote the play of A Man for All Seasons before he wrote the screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia and then he came back to work on the screenplay for the movie A Man for All Seasons

it's not like a groundbreaking thought but my two big takeaways were that it's really pretty and it is really long

For context, it's three hours, 48 minutes or something like that.

Yeah.

What did you guys think of the humor in this?

It's funny in a Robert Bolt kind of way.

It's funny in the same way that A Man for All Seasons was funny.