Gordon Pinsent shows Grant retreating into a kind of gruff blankness; his face has the impassive, leonine quality associated with Alzheimer's sufferers, and he is in fact at one stage mistaken for a patient.
"When we size up a festival and we have a feeling about a project before it plays, we'll make a move," said Mr. Barker, who had also seen Mr. Shannon on stage in "Mistakes Were Made," which is just ending an Off Broadway run.
Singling someone out for punishment does nothing to fix underlying flaws in the system that set the stage for mistakes -- flaws like different medicines having similar names or labels, or hospitals with such poor record keeping systems that doctors lack vital information on patients they are treating.
At this stage, making mistakes can be integral to the learning process.
Patients who would like to have their blood tested when they go to their GP tend to have high hopes for blood tests as a diagnostic tool: they assume that such tests yield a great deal of information, that they provide proof of a good health status and that they allow serious diseases to be detected at an early stage without mistakes.
This sets the stage for mistaken identity, untimely character entrances and general deception.
She appears bemused by the cheering audience beyond the spotlight, as if she had drifted onto the stage by mistake.
Mr. Cabnet, who also staged "The Mistakes Madeline Made" for Naked Angels added, "We often see playwrights who can do one or the other, but rarely the two together".
And at that stage, any mistake just kills you.
