Comedy of errors: theatre's fascination with disaster
From David Suchet's broken shoelace to the tumbling barometer in Noel Coward's Hay Fever, theatre is always playing with the threat " and the thrill " of things going wrong for realThe tale of David Suchet and a shoelace illuminates a fascinating aspect of live theatre: the tension between the accidental and the planned. Several critics commented on a moment during the first act of Anthony Page's splendid new product…