Good evening, or whatever time it is where you are. I am Folake Adeyemi-Oni and this is Half Hour Call, the show about theatre from the wings, where the real drama lives. Today I am with a stage manager who has run productions in Lagos for fifteen years, and I have been trying to get her on this show since the day we started, because of one night. Act two, full house, a play I had directed, and the generator died. Total darkness. Ninety seconds of silence that felt like an hour. What happened next is the reason I still believe in live theatre. We talk about finishing a play by phone torch, about what the audience did, and about the bag of equipment she has carried to every single show since. Stage managers, this one is for you. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.