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Looking back at great theatrical disasters by Michael Billington

Way Upstream once flooded the National. As the play is revived, Michael Billington takes a look at great theatrical disastersTheatre is a disaster area: a world of precarious illusion in which, as Michael Frayn brilliantly showed in Noises Off, chaos is always impending. And one of theatre's supreme ironies is that the more reliant it becomes on technology, the more disaster-prone it appears. The classic example is A…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM on February 3, 2016

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