More Acting

I am grateful to today's Guardian for recounting the theatrical legend of the first night performance of "Bouncers" by John Godber. This is now a mainstay of British Theatre but its opening was far from auspicious. The four bouncers onstage opened to an audience of two. ( My rule of thumb has always been we will play to any size of audience but not if the cast outnumber them. This story shows how much I know!)
One of the audience was a critic reviewing the show who left before the end. The other was a drunk so taken by the verisimilitude of what was being portrayed before him that he joined in the performance.
I must look more closely at the work of John Godber and his Hull Truck company.