Exit strategy
Some theatre programmes carry text under the heading “Licensing requirements”. Part of this reads: “The audience may leave at the end of the performance by all exit doors and such doors must at that time be open.”
I was somewhat surprised on March 1 when attending a performance of Sweet Nothings at the Young Vic to be told at the end of the performance by a member of staff that I was not allowed to leave by any of the fire exits. Consequently I and everyone else in the audience were herded into a narrow corridor at the back of the auditorium. Since the theatre was virtually full, this area became very congested and we then had to exit via the bar/restaurant at the front of the theatre. It took quite a long time to get out of the Young Vic that night.
Is it a licensing requirement that the audience may leave at the end of a performance via the fire exits or not?
Robin Pike
Emerton Court
Northchurch
Berkhamsted
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