Tim Robbins

Yeah.

The code of the Boy Scout is pretty extraordinary.

The characteristics that the Boy Scouts of America demand.

I saw Pippin on Broadway when I was a kid.

That was pretty remarkable.

I saw some Shakespeare in the Park productions that were extraordinary.

One by a guy named Andre Serban, a Romanian director, who I would meet many years later and be able to show him my production of Midsummer Night's Dream.

It was like, you know, I've had these incredible moments with people like that, mentors, people that, you know, like, for example, Dario Fo, the great Italian playwright, Nobel Prize winner,

When I was in college, I read his play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

And that was the first time that I felt I could write a play.

So that was the starting point for me.

And then to be in Milan.

So funny.

but he was talking about a real incident that had happened where an activist was murdered in police custody.

So this very serious subject matter, but hilarious farce.

And the mix of those two, when I read it, I thought that would be

incredible to be able to mix those two things with something that I'm thinking about right now.

And so to then, 30 years later, meet the guy and have him endorse the play I had just directed and then invite me into his world

And to the point where the following year I was back in Milan with a play I had just written about the Commedia dell'arte called Harlechino on to Freedom.

And I'm sitting at his feet as he's telling me his notes on the play.