The sight of Stephen Mangan's prosthetic penis in Joe Penhall's Birthday was too much for preview audiences, who thought it was real. Why can't theatre cope with too much reality?A few weeks ago, the subject of this column was theatre previews: what their function is and whether, with audiences increasingly tweeting and blogging their responses, it's still practical or justifiable to have a run of critic-free perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM on July 3, 2012