Stephen Fry Says Theatre Needs To Understand Actors’ Mental Health Is As Important As Their Physical Health

Fry, who left a production in 1995 to figure out his own mental health, said, “Swings and dance captains are there in order, every single day, to work out if there’s an injury who will be replacing who in the chorus, who is coming in to double for this part and so on. The day may come when someone says: ‘I’ve broken my ankle’, and [someone else says]: ‘I’ve got the day off because I have had a depressive episode’, and it will sound the same.”