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From broken legs to flaming wigs: a brief history of theatrical disasters


From broken legs to flaming wigs: a brief history of theatrical disasters
Five years ago a tenor was nearly killed on-stage by a falling prop. But it wasn t the first time a performer has suffered for his art
2 February 2021 • 6:00am
Before the fall: Robert Dean Smith as Tristan in rehearsals in 2012
Credit: alliance archive / Alamy Stock Photo
How much of yourself should you leave on stage? Back in 2015, the American tenor Robert Dean Smith, came perilously close to finding out. Smith was performing in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde at Toulouse’s venerable Théâtre du Capitole when he was nearly crushed by a huge 212kg black rock that was meant to only symbolise his tombstone. As the rock descended to a mere 11cm away from his face (it was meant to stop at 60), it very nearly became it. We knew Wagner could be heavy, but this was taking things a bit too far. ....

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Extraordinary life of ex-Polam Hall pupil who was still dancing at 91


Diana Payne-Myers in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley, P.W. Productions on tour 2018/19.Directed by Stephen Daldry.Designed by Ian MacNeil.Lighting by Rick Fisher.Associate Director Julian Webber..Photo by Mark Douet.
AN extraordinary former Polam Hall School pupil, who supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Max Miller and Morecambe and Wise, has died at the age of 92.
Diana Payne-Myers, who was born in Darlington in 1928, was dancing until the end – she spent her 91st birthday on Broadway appearing in An Inspector Calls. She even did a cartwheel and the splits on stage in her late eighties – although she admitted for the latter that “I’m cheating a little”. ....

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