“Behind the Headlines: The Unseen Lives of Newspaper Actors Who Shape Our Reality”
They walk the boards in every scene
with their characters tabloid-nose down
and sell tickets to audiences who are keen
to see the latest breaking news interpretations in town.
During the play, they may need a stack of papers
which they pick up from the prop table.
It makes for some theatrical capers
which they sort out during press rehearsal.
And all this because they can’t remember their lines!
Actors who want to be dead sure they won’t corpse on stage.
Even in London, seeing the classics behind
broadsheets has become the west-end rage.
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