| It's so weird to me that there is only one understudy for both performers, unless there is an unlisted understudy or two (not counting Mason). When I say it's weird, it's not that I don't realize that this sort of thing is common and has been for a long time. But it still seems to me that it makes life unnecessarily tough on the understudy who has to know both roles in a two-hander, or, for that matter, when there were only two understudies for the four actors in God of Carnage some years back. In a case like the latter, it just seems foolhardy because if one person in a cast gets too sick to perform, there's a good chance another cast member will come down with the same thing, and performances might have to be canceled altogether till one of them recovers. |
