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Extraneous Material

I do wish that more might
be made of the players
themselves. They too often
seem to be extraneous material
on the stage. It is absolutely
necessary that they be
enormously appealing, both in
their roguishness and their
underlying love of the theater,
if Will's admiration for them is
to seem more than mere
eccentricity. As it stands now
they are fairly lackluster. I
would also suggest that if Andy
Weisnet, as Ned, is to
accurately speak Tamburlaine's
lines, he read Marlowe's play in
order to get a better sense of
the epic warrior.