To smoke or not to smoke
A stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theatre to change the script of an Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge to make it smoke-free. After a 15-minute suspension, the performance resumed with a modified script and a non-smoking protagonist.
Source: Reuters (14 November 2005)
posted by Simon Clark @ 10:38
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2 Comments:
That story sounds too good to be true!
I once accompanied a friend to a central London theatre, to see the play 'Lobby Hero'. To my horror around halfway through, one of the actors standing perhaps 5 meters from my seat, lit up and subsequently smoked a cigarette.
There was no warning or escaping its stench or my assosiated fears.
Cripes, anonymous. I hope you sought immediate medical attention following this outrage of incorrectness. You must have inhaled the equivalent of at least, ooh, 0.0000001 of a cigarette.
Frankly, you'll inhale more carcinogens from crossing a not-very-busy road.
This just goes to show how effective the anti's propaganda has been at spreading fear and loathing. To paraphrase Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbals, "...if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating the lie, the people will eventually come to believe it". In our paranoid times, these incitements to hate a minority, based on the Big Lie that is the "passive smoking" justification, are a sinister echo of that dark chapter in European History which many have chosen to forget.
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