Weir himself played the role of a teacher he called Mr. Quern, requiring the boys to report, in costume, to his classroom (a rehearsal space that had been outfitted with desks), where he addressed them as their characters and instructed them to organize a school play. “It was a way of deconstructing my own position as director, to relax everything,” he said. “I made a fool of myself. I became an actor myself.”
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