Vom... = vomitory?

close enough! since the word is "vomitorium" but I just looked it up in my trusty dic and the definition was "vomitory"....There are two of them at the Festival Theatre at Stratford (Ontario!), kinda downstage L and R (WO'N, can you have "downstage" on a thrust stage?! guess you need some way of referring to the front of the stage...as much as a thrust stage has a front....). - They serve (at Stratford) as an entrance/exit from/to the area under the stage, which they call the Underworld.

'Tis quite a beautiful stage altogether - if any of y'all ever gets there, it's well worth trying to fit in a backstage tour (as well as going to a performance, of course!).

Back to movies/films/fillums/the pictures/the talkies: About A Boy just came out on video. Well worth a look - Hugh Grant actually can act, after all! and that little boy - can't remember his name, alas - but what a great face he has. Toni Collette is wonderful in this too.