New Theatre' last performance of Shakespeare in Love, yesterday was life imitating art imitating life. One plot twist hinges on a character losing their voice and having someone step in. But at the start we were told someone really had lost their voice and the director was stepping in. They did an admirable job.
Some of the best laughs were when the sound system made strange noises and the cast breached the fourth wall to make quips about it. With the scripted chaos of a play within a play, at times it was had to tell was the play and what wasn't. The set was spinning as was my head. But the cast carried on to the end, which as I tell my students, is all you can aim for in any performance.
PS: New Theatre, you have a ground loop in your sound system.
