New Poll - OUCH!

Method Studio wrote:
> Just how dangerous do things have to get before an actor
> stops the show? If a preventible accident looms, is there
> anything wrong with dropping out of the play and dealing with
> it? Any thoughts people?

Difficult call.

Godspell many years back. There was a set of treads down centre stage running from the edge of the raised stage to the floor of the auditorium. Minutes before the closing number an actor making a dramatic exit tears down these steps and out through the centre aisle of the auditorium; not missing a beat as his foot goes through one of the treads leaving a gaping hole.

Fine for him.

Yours truly is about to be crucified. Then carried on the shoulders of cast members down these same steps and out through the same centre aisle. Stepping off the stage on to the treads was a literal and metaphorical leap of faith; we had no idea what condition the steps were in after giving way under a single actor and were about to launch down them en masse with another (at that stage much lighter than now) body perched precariously atop people's shoulders.

There's so much that can be planned for, but when the inexplicable happens, do you charge blindly ahead?

As it turned out, the steps held out. But would we have been justified in stopping the show?

Cheers
Grant

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