Theatrical Performances

My first visit to the Georgian Theatre in Richmond (North Yorkshire) included an unbilled but entertaining prelude of watching the audience assemble in the authentically cramped gallery of the tiny auditorium, where from our relatively spacious bench on the third row we watched the front row fill up quite comfortably until the arrival at one end of a gentleman of generous proportions who managed to park just one buttock until some begrudged shuffling enabled him an increase to one and a half, meanwhile a lady with elbow crutches was battling with the foot high steps down to her seat along one edge of the gallery, which her family had occupied early – too early for three girls whose seats further along the row were then only accessible by climbing over from row two, at some danger of overshooting and falling into the pit below; oh, and the plays, a comedy double bill of Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ and Peter Shaffer’s ‘Black Comedy’, were also a very good watch.