The day afterward, the Society of London Theatre said in a statement that “every theatre undergoes rigorous safety checks” but the event so shocked London it led to a new safety regime. West End theatres ceilings are now inspected and certified annually. “We are sitting on a time bomb,” Richard Howle, a former commercial director for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s London theatres, wrote in The Stage, a British theatre newspaper. In London, similar problems have been reported in smaller theatres outside the West End. The Southwark Playhouse in South London stopped several performances of a musical, “Preludes,” this fall after water dripped onto the audience.

Source: bd News24 November 28, 2019 08:15 UTC