Five or so minutes into the opening scene, the protesters' show got under way with aforementioned balcony scene.

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The whole balcony scene was "not long enough, " says Sandy, but they still believed every second was worth the wait.

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It came a few minutes later in a reprisal of the balcony scene, this time with a different cast but the same resulted: swift eviction.

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Leveaux put the pair together for the first time in Los Angeles a few months ago to see if they could produce sparks and proposed they start performing the Act 2 balcony scene.

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And we've actually just completed filming a scene out on the balcony which became very famous after part one, where the lead character, Dad's character...

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The dirt floor over which the festival tent is pitched is decorated with little more than a balcony and a bed, and the actors charge from scene to scene with bracing speed, relishing Shakespeare's bawdiness and rising to his heights of eloquence.

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