The door in the back wall of the set was a vintage, weathered door from the 1930s used for authenticity - but the door jammed almost every time they opened it. At one point during Act Two, at the end of an argument with her son, she had to make an exit through the door. She turned the knob and pulled hard - and instead of the door opening, the frosted window pane in the top half of the door shattered!
Erin Dilly, who was standing next to her, immediately started asking "Are you all right?" and the two of them made it clear to everybody else that Kate wasn't injured and they wouldn't need to stop the show. After a short time they got over the shock and were able to open the door and continue with the scene. Later, actors walked on to their scenes early with dustpans and brushes to clean up the fragments of glass.
After Kate's exit, the next line of dialog was an actor saying to Erin "Is she OK?" Erin's response: "No, she broke a window!" |
