Thanks, pwitt, PL OK!
This was an enjoyable listen. Leacock's stories about old time melodramas and stage effects are a lot of fun. Your read makes me think of a movie about a small town theater company which you might enjoy, if you can get access to it. It's called
"Janey Makes a Play, A Small Town Theater Production," by Dark Star Pictures, which came out in 2016. It's about a 90-year old woman who for many years has written and produced plays featuring the amateur performers in her home town. Her plays always feature wild stage effects like earthquakes and exploding popcorn machines; everybody in town seems to get involved, if not acting, then engineering the stage effects, and so on.
I just happened to watch this movie by accident. My movie fare usually comes from my local library's "on-demand" download program, which comes from a site called "Kanopy." Kanopy has lots of unusual and interesting movie fare; the only problem is that my library limits patrons to 10 downloads a month. After that, if you still want to watch a movie, you only have access to Kanopy's "credit-free viewing list," mostly dreadful rejects, but once in a while a movie that maybe it's just hard to get people to watch--like a movie about a 90-year old playwright and stage manager! Well, that's how I watched "Janey Makes a Play," but it was worth watching.
