alt Hacker NewsPerformances at my local theatre are banned.
The crowd loved the short five-night run, last time. It made all the papers, tickets sold out, tourists rocked up for it.
Seven actors were injured, in a space that usually saw one injury a year. Six were ruled unavoidable by the fire warden doing the post-assessments.
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Did they avoid peacock feathers onstage?
Reciting lines from The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night's Dream is also rumored to be helpful (from the last section).
"For the more athletically inclined, one should exit the theatre, spin around in a circle three times, and spit."
https://broadwaydirect.com/13-theater-superstitions-hallowee...
Banned why? I understand why you wouldn’t want to reveal your location, but I’d be interested to know where such a policy was enacted.
Or this is a joke on the “curse”?
Apropos of the curse, an explanation that I heard from a reasonably famous Scottish stage actor:
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s most popular play, cause it’s got sex and blood and poetry all over, a really tight plot, and it’s not too long. It is pretty well guaranteed to fill a theatre. Also, every actor knows the script so you can find a cast in no time.
So if your current play is not selling a lot of tickets and is about to be cancelled, the theatre is going to put on Macbeth right after you to try to make its money back quickly. That’s why thespians hate to hear the name ‘Macbeth’ — because if there’s talk of that play going about, you could be out of a job next week.