The idea of the epic theatre marathon isn't new " but it raises fascinating questions about how much an audience is prepared to put up withIn Tom Stoppard's one-acter The Real Inspector Hound (1968), which depicts the press night of a spoof Mousetrap-like murder mystery, one of the reviewers confides to another before the performance begins: "Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:23AM on June 19, 2012