I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.
“The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.”
“I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.”