stackyFACTSIf your play sucked, you didn't rewrite it—you just bought fake friends. Theaters in the past routinely hired professional 'claqueurs' to sit in the audience and vigorously clap, laugh, or weep on command to trick paying patrons into thinking the show was actually good.
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