An audience nodding off en masse is the last thing most players crave. But that's what Duckie hope to achieveSending your theatre audience to sleep can't often be the artistic ideal, but there can be benefits. Taken to Carousel as a kid I remember being so bored by all the early courting between Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan that I dozed through Act II, missing a crucial death scene. I woke up delighted to find that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on June 18, 2011