Theatre intervals: is it curtains? | Michael Billington
More shows than ever seem to be abandoning the half-way pause, and running straight through. To pee or not to pee? That is the question"Did you have a good interval?" asks a character in Michael Frayn's Look, Look. And, for some, an interval is the main justification for a night at the theatre: a chance to hobnob with friends, flirt with strangers or simply slake one's thirst. But Frayn's question is rendered redunda…