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00:00Even when I was a kid and watching Walter Cronkite deliver the news, I didn't realize
00:07that they had to decide what news to tell us.
00:12There is an agenda on the table and it's not even subtle anymore, it's very clear.
00:19Network just feels so unbelievably topical and kind of creepily foreshadowed a lot of
00:28what we're dealing with right now, even back in the 70s.
00:31Although Paddy was writing about network television in the 70s, he'd written a play about the
00:39internet age.
00:40It's a very simple story, but it's a very, very complicated moral, ethical, political
00:48debate that the play is involved with.
00:51The Sidney Lumet movie is beloved and is undeniably a classic.
00:57This is a completely different deal.
01:00Ivo van Gogh's approach to this feels so alive, so vibrant.
01:06He creates a world that's at once faithful to the original and yet is a completely its
01:10own absolutely contemporary experience.
01:13I wanted to create a feeling of community, of a real democracy in the theater.
01:19So I have also Brian interact with audience sometimes.
01:23We have even audiences on stage, there is a real restaurant on stage.
01:27You can book special tickets for that.
01:30What is thrilling is to see an actor of Brian's experience and skill at the top of their game.
01:39All these beats, all these elements resonate so strongly with today's audience that it's
01:47going to have a great impact here in New York.
01:51Two hours of bat out of hell entertainment and social commentary and human drama.
01:59It's just very incredibly alive.