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How a play is produced/The Technical Staff

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How a play is produced (1928)
by Karel Čapek, illustrated by Josef Čapek, translated by Percy Beaumont Wadsworth
The Technical Staff
Karel ČapekJosef Čapek4659500How a play is produced — The Technical Staff1928Percy Beaumont Wadsworth

The Technical Staff

THE technical staff, as will have been seen, are very busy in the interval. During the action, if it is a first night, they are crowded into the wings, where they look on, make jokes, and calculate when it will be over. On other nights they play cards or lie about on benches in their rooms. Half a minute before the end of the act a bell rings for them, and they tramp on to the stage, where a lyric dialogue is reaching its whispered end. At it, lads!