Audience Fumes After Griffiths Pulls Out of Equus

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STUNNED SILENCE in the auditorium at the Gielgud Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on Saturday afternoon when Richard Griffiths, who plays the psychiatrist, failed to appear for the matinee of Equus, or for the evening performance, due to a bout of flu. Irate theatre goers, who paid up to Pounds 50 for a seat in the stalls, moaned that the play, starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame, opened only last week.

The audience was particularly disappointed when Griffiths's understudy, Colin Haigh, seemed not to have learned his lines and wandered around the stage reading his script from a notebook. When the lights dimmed, Haigh was in the dark and lost for words.

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Audience Fumes After Griffiths Pulls Out of Equus

"It's a scandalous way to treat people who've spent a lot ...

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