Bristol Old Vic has apologised to customers after a live stream of the “hit show of the decade” from Manchester’s Lowry theatre was hit by technical glitches. Some theatre fans who had paid to watch the acclaimed new play Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead found themselves staring at a screen saying “safety curtain”.
Ahead of the performance Bristol Old Vic told customers that even if they had seen in the play based on a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel it was still worth tuning into the live stream because the company had a few surprises in store for them.
And the audience who settled down in front of their screens at home last night, expecting to see a play about members of a local hunting club living in a small community near the Czech-Polish border dying in mysterious circumstances, were certainly surprised to see nothing but the safety curtain logo.
