All the world’s a stage but how much of our language originates from the theatre? Featuring the bug house, fluffers, merkins, pinging and ponging, the mystery of ‘Break A Leg’, the superstitions of Macbeth, the language of polari, salty fish in response to a sneeze and the very first instance of stealing someone’s thunder. A Somethin’ Else Production.
Susie’s Trio of Words:
Pratfall: a comedy fall onto your buttocks.
Somnificator: somebody who induces sleep in someone else.
Exisibilate: to hiss a poor performer off the stage.
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