SUPERSTITIONS, TRADITIONS AND RITUALS
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Over the years, theatre has become the centre for all manner of superstitions, rituals and traditions, probably more than any other genre out there.
We’ve all heard of the odd moment when a snooker player decides they can only wear their lucky red socks to stand any hope of winning a game, the tennis player who ‘has’ to tie their shoe laces in between every point played or the footballer who won’t even consider stepping onto a pitch without wearing their ‘lucky’ underpants.
But theatre presents a whole spectrum of the most unlucky (or lucky) set of superstitions of them all. In fact some traditions go back so many years that it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when and from where they started. Some of these unwritten rules are more comprehensive than others while there are some that can have their origins explained away quite easily. Mind you that doesn’t mean that the more understood ones aren’t still respected and ‘avoided’ where possible today.
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