It was about 10 minutes till the big finale, and the two girls were singing to each other how they were going to be best friends forever. When suddenly from the back of the room we could people talking and at first I thought it was someone having a fight! But after a couple of minutes the screaming grew louder, a group of ladies at the back of the theatre were screaming for help, they were shouting as loud as they could for someone to help them. The shouts and screams were getting louder and louder, men started screaming for the lights to be turned on and for the show to stop. Every ushers was running to the back of the theatre and the entire back of the theatre were screaming for someone to turn the lights on and for help. The actors on stage carried on for a good 5 minutes as if nothing were happening (they were facing eachother and had headphones in as they were singing so maybe they couldnt hear?) Until one of the girls stopped and was looking into the wings and both girls looked very confused. The lights were turned on and the curtain had gone down.
What had happened is that a lady had fainted and they were trying to get her out and help her wake up. This made me wonder, this must happen in theatres, this couldnt have been the first time. Don't the backstage crew have some kind of signal or code word to stop the play? I thought this was interesting to blog as if we were ever preforming and something went wrong.. how would we react?
I feel like if I were on stage and I could see and hear that someone was in need of help, I would use the fact that i have a microphone and people can hear me and say 'we need to stop the show, someone up there needs help' but im sure that in the theatre industry youre told to keep going no matter what.
What does everyone think? What would you do?