Our pal Jerry Agar has learned that
At Yale the Dean of Student Affairs lost no time in speeding to a decision on how best to protect students. I am not sure whether meetings took place, making this a team decision, but nonetheless it is easy to see the brilliance behind Betty Trachtenberg’s decision. She outlawed stage weapons in theatrical productions. Why, anyone can see how someone masking as a theater major could slip into a Shakespeare play only to rush madly into the audience during Act 1, spearing people with a sword. A real gun might be hard to distinguish from a prop gun (that being the point of good props) so it is obviously better to have the students use the “finger and thumb gun” we all learned as children. Now, that’s acting!
