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Some people are just attention seeking, I would be more concerned about Ian McKellen falling off the stage then trying to get freebies from the theatre and producers.

Now I don't know much about medical trauma but I'm not sure if you need to go to hospital if a person's head hits your knee. The way the woman is going as if she was run over by a car!!

From the piece on BBC London News, it looks like her mother is controlling the narrative.

I think Johanna needs to get a grip. Amazing what people will do for attention. I'm guessing any injuries she sustained are extremely minor.

Tbh having Ian McKellen fall off stage and land on you, as long as he's ok and not too badly injured, is the kind of story you could dine out on for years!

Soft tissue injury. A bruise then. She'll live.

Disappointing to see so many judgemental attitudes about the poor woman on the front row.

I wouldn't blame anyone for going to the press/media if the organisation at fault is not playing ball, although it does seem to generate a backlash from some these days and, for that reason, it's not really advisable unless you have a particularly thick skin. Journalists also have a way of wheedling out answers to questions and distorting responses in ways that are not helpful.

As for staged photographs, what nonsense. Of course the mother at the hospital would do that. Anyone involved in anything these days knows full well you are best to keep evidence of everything that happens because others will deny it. I even video trivial stuff like cars being rented and getting off delayed trains, because companies always try and argue that things were not as they were.

No doubt if she'd instead brought her grievance to the Bad Behaviour thread on here as her vehicle of protest, there would have been more sympathy.

The Telegraph says she spent the night in hospital but I assume that was just waiting to be seen in A&E.

The mother would be a great "Mama Rose".

If I had the bad taste to go on the news, that would be my sole intent. Stuff compensation, I want to check he’s okay, and have coffee and a laugh with Sir Ian.

It's important if we're casting aspersions on people's motivations to be evidence driven.

So what are your sources for:

- that the woman didn't think McKellen deserved priority
- that any video has been published
- that any published photo featured non-consenting third parties
- that this was only a slight inconvenience.

We are told that she went to hospital, so hardly slightly inconvenient. We are told that "soft tissue damage" was diagnosed. That means that bones showed no sign of damage. Soft tissue issues can range from something that repairs after a couple of days to something that can be painful and debilitating for months.

Didn't McKellen play Kerching Lear a while back?

I wandered by at 7pm tonight and was surprised by the flight cases and prop trolleys already outside.

Didn't realise this production only does one performance on Saturday. Then I saw the running time and thought "yeah, fair enough".

I think with that statistic you are conflating "inappropriate" meaning unnecessary, because the patient did not really need medical help, with inappropriate because the patient could not get a timely appointment with their GP or the bit of the health service they actually and properly needed.