Bars in the US state Minnesota have found a brilliant way to circumvent a new smoking ban:
The law grants an exception from the ban to performers in theatrical productions. So the bars have become theatres, and their customers, actors.
Now some bars print bills listing the "cast" of bartenders, and ashtrays become "props". Drinkers don costumes and attempt strange accents.
"They're playing themselves before 1 October - you know, before there was a smoking ban... We call the production, Before the Ban!" (BBC)
Absolutely magnificent. Unfortunately, not something that we can emulate over here, sicne our legislature went completely totalitarian on us and banned even performers in theatrical productions from smoking in an "enclosed space".Now some bars print bills listing the "cast" of bartenders, and ashtrays become "props". Drinkers don costumes and attempt strange accents.
"They're playing themselves before 1 October - you know, before there was a smoking ban... We call the production, Before the Ban!" (BBC)
