00:00it got to about, almost about interval stage and I don't know how familiar you are with Henry IV,
00:07but it was just as the fight was happening between Hal and Hotspur and the lights all
00:14started going off. There was quite a lot of darkness and Ian McKellen sort of sprinted on stage
00:22and there was sort of a step just before the stage ends and the audience begins and he basically
00:32put one foot too far over that step from what it looked like from my angle, basically almost
00:38flipped over, went head first into the audience and immediately sort of blood-curdling screams,
00:48he was screaming help me. I didn't really know what was happening at first, I thought it could
00:54have been part of the play but within the first five seconds of him falling off stage the lights
00:59all came on in the auditorium and to their credit the ushers were really on it. They immediately
01:05went to his aid, they got the first two rows to evacuate pretty much immediately and then within
01:1130 seconds the rest of the auditorium was on their way out. Meanwhile all we could hear as
01:19we're exiting the building really is poor Ian's cries for help, it was really, really sad.
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