Tragedy Turned Into Comedy Thanks to One Well-Timed Audience Fart

by Conor Moroney. @conorseamusactor.

BRATTLEBORO, VT – A comedy occurred tonight in a local theater as a tragedy was changed forever due to one, well-timed audience fart.

“It couldn’t have hit at a better time, I’m still in tears” said Walton Cage, an audience member wiping his eyes for multiple reasons, after the gastrointestinal distress illuminated Saskatoon Theatre’s production of Strained Tidings. “That man was writhing around, screaming his head off, when someone just let out this prolonged poot. A remarkable set up for one punch line. The best night of theatre since Mark Rylance angrily belched during 'To be or not to be'."

Tony Conroy - the actor who shared the stage with the air biscuit - offered some insight into the sudden change of tone.

“I was fully in the moment, and all of a sudden... ‘poof,” Conroy said, visibly shaken in his dressing room and occasionally spraying air freshener. “I laid there on the ground as I heard a few snickers, which grew until I couldn’t hear the curtain fall nor my scene mate asking me to get up for the curtain call. I did what was expected - but I don’t know if I could ever forgive the audience for that blow off.”

Playwright Christie Monroe seemed completely unconcerned regarding the little baked bean blast.

“This was completely the point of the entire production,” said Monroe, who seemed to be holding a smile just a little too long. “The theatre is all about revealing truths to your audience, and sometimes what is expected is not what is given. Sometimes what is expected is a deeply personal story about loss, but what is given instead is a bunch of barking spiders and happy, hand-waving audience.”

Though no one was able to identify the tooter, as people were exiting one was heard to say “I thought it was gonna be a ‘one cheek sneak!’”