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Quite worrying that the venue didn't seem to trigger the alarms and start an evacuation. I can understand an audience waiting for instructions but surely the theatre had a policy and trained staff to carry it out....

 

(OT aside, when I was a trustee for a Youth Drama charity, we used to negotiate discounted access to a council-owned venue by providing a fake audience for staff training exercises. Lot's of our members were briefed to do various stupid things when the evacuation sounded. For example, with my arthritic knees I loved to play the stroppy old git who waited by the lift refusing to use the stairs. Another time I simply went to the toilet and stayed there, causing a "fail" for the person who was supposed to check the loos. It's worrying how well I do stupid and stroppy!)

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then a stagehand come out with a fire extinguisher in an unsuccessful effort to douse the flames

Perhaps not an appropriately trained stagehand - using a CO2 extinguisher for an overhead fire will never work very well...

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Remember normal people see stage left as right and stage right as left.

Did I say normal people.....?

 

I like how the reporter emphasised "Stage Right" as if to sound like he knew the terminology, whereas in fact if he would have said to the right of the stage...... :rolleyes:

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