The Firebird didn't die in the showroom — it died in a boardroom.
Joshua Hammer is a contributing writer to Smithsonian magazine and the author of several books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious ...
When you're performing in a play you can change the way you speak and move to make the character believable. Plays can be comedies or tragedies so the audience might laugh or cry.