Quotes About Stagehand

My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.

When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.

It might be beneficial for him occasionally to be reminded that I work for myself. That he was a stagehand, not one of the actors.

A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, "The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work while we're busy acting out our scenes.