HOW A PLAY IS PRODUCED
ing the producer’s instructions (in which case the bad interpretation is imputed to the actor).
If by pure chance no one should stumble in the dialogue on the first night, no badly fixed scenery should suddenly fall down, no reflector should burn itself out, and no other similar misfortune should take place, the producer is then praised in the local press as “having produced very carefully”: but it is really pure chance, whether any of these things should occur. Before the first night is reached, however, the martyrdom of rehearsals must be endured.
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