Loss of stage lights creates true live theater for StageWest performance

StageWest Community Theatre had an interesting weekend of performances.

First, the group’s current production of “The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church” competed with Eastern Washington University’s Homecoming weekend, so consequently, Friday and Saturday night audiences were a little slim.

On Sunday the audience got to see live theater in complete action as the stage lights went out during the first act and the cast and crew improvised to finish the act. Technicians could not fix the problem during intermission, so again the cast improvised and went on with the second...