点评:After enjoying the first half of 1984 my friend and I walked out into the coffee area of the circle floor. We were looking for a quiet toilet that the usher had told us about. Unfortunately we walked towards the wrong place . . . to the right of the rear, black wall. Next we made our way towards the left of the black wall, following the wall all the time. This black wall has a raised platform that runs all the way along the bottom of the wall close to the floor. At one spot in the raised platform the outside edge of the platform forms a sharp point in its design. My friend did not notice this “point”. Her left foot caught the protruding point, her right foot had nowhere to go and down she went.
We did stay for the second half of the performance but my friend’s two knees were very soon badly swollen. It was very difficult to exit the theatre and return to the train station. By the time our train arrived in Prestwick my friend was almost unable to walk at all and in a great deal of pain. Soon afterwards, feeing total miserable and in much pain, she was forced to go to Ayr A n E where she remained for almost 10 hours before being seen. She has a suspected fracture at the top of her tibia as well as these very swollen knees and black and blue swollen hands. She is extremely shaken still today.
Citizens staff were very attentive and helpful but the fact remains that there should be no inappropriate design feature anywhere in a theatre which could cause such upset. This “point” needs to be removed or raised up by perhaps a metre with some sort of feature on it so that it is much more visible.
This incident should not have happened, it spoiled our outing and my friend now possibly faces a lengthy recovery period.
翻译:在享受完1984年上半年的时光后,我和朋友走到了圆形大厅的咖啡区。我们正在寻找引座员向我们提及过的那个安静的洗手间。可惜我们走错了方向……我们走向了后方黑色墙壁的右侧。随后,我们沿着黑色墙壁一直向左行进。这面黑色墙壁上有一道隆起的平台,它顺着墙底一直延伸到地面附近。在高台的某个位置,台面的外缘形成了一个尖角。我的朋友没有注意到这个“尖角”。她的左脚绊到了这个突出的部分,右脚则无处落脚,于是就摔倒了。
我们确实留下来观看了演出的后半部分,但没过多久,我朋友的双膝就肿得厉害。要从剧院出来并返回火车站实在困难至极。当我们的火车抵达普雷斯威克时,我的朋友几乎无法行走,而且痛苦不堪。不久之后,由于痛苦难忍且状态极其糟糕,她不得不前往艾尔的A&E急诊室。她在那里等待了近10个小时才得到诊治。经检查,她的胫骨上端疑似骨折,膝盖严重肿胀,双手也青肿不已。直到今天,她仍然惊魂未定、心有余悸。Citizens剧院的工作人员非常细心且乐于助人,但事实是:剧院内绝不应出现任何可能引发此类不适的设计元素。这个“凸起物”需要被移除,或者至少抬高约一米,并在上面设置某种标志物,以便让它更加显眼。
这种事故本不该发生,它破坏了我们的游玩体验;如今我的朋友可能需要经历漫长的康复过程。