upstairs

"The staircase was entirely wooden, and there were many people moving upstairs at the time. As the congregants were going, the wooden structure gave way, leading to the collapse," Mr Gebreweld said.

“It works just fine upstairs, but it doesn’t have great circulation. Downstairs, it’s a sea of guests and it gets very hot.”

Weeks later, the pair arrange to meet in the upstairs balcony of an old movie palace.

It was a role he originated in London, on the tiny stage upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, where it first became an underground sensation.

The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.