The Worst Things I Have Experienced at the Theatre

I love going to the theatre and I have been fortunate enough to see hundreds of productions, many of them more than once. Additionally, I have had the opportunity to meet and interview a number of performers, writers and directors, which has only added to my respect for the amount of hard work that happens both on and off the stage to bring a production together.

With live performance, some level of unpredictability is always part of the deal and that is generally understood and accepted. Things do go wrong from time to time and the performers and crew pause or adjust when they need to. Over the years, I have seen performances rightly stopped for medical emergencies in the audience, understudies take over after the interval when a performer has been taken ill and intervals extended while technical issues behind the scenes are resolved. These moments are part of live theatre, handled professionally and for good reason.

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