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You want to sit down? You can’t: there are four chairs, and they are all occupied. Five minutes before the show is scheduled to start, an usher loaded with a pile of chairs and a trunk of drinks creates an improvised bar on a folding steel table. This, you remember, is the State Theatre. The one supported by government money, which employs a huge staff, that one. Not a hole in the wall. Not a student initiative. The State Theatre. — robynsassenmyview.com