The show must go on

摘要

Apart from the safety curtain coming down during the interval, have you ever thought about what goes into the fire precautions at a theatre? Ron Alalouff paid a visit to the West End to find out. My first thought on walking through the stage door at the Palace Theatre off London's Shaftesbury Avenue - apart from wondering whether I was about to bump into a famous West End star -concerned the challenge of protecting such a warren of corridors, storage rooms and dressing rooms. The area leading from the stage door is more business-like than the public areas of the theatre, but gives an idea of the building and maintenance issues faced in this Victorian edifice - one of the group of London theatres owned by Really Useful Theatres.