Abstract
Does disaster strike only at the most inopportune times? Or do ordinary events become disasters largely as a result of their timing? Take the Great Flood of 2005, for example. If the hot water heater at Live Bait Theatre in Sackville, New Brunswick, had burst at a time when someone was around to notice, there might have been no crisis. Some one would just have turned off the water supply and called the plumber. Instead , the plumbing let go late on a grey March afternoon, just after everyone had left the theatre for an early supper, planning to be back in a few hours for the opening of Little Shop of Horrors, being presented that night by Black Tie Productions, a Mount Allison University student company. By the time the receptionist in the doctor’s office next door noticed a small stream winding across her waiting-room floor, water had been spewing from the broken tank for more than an hour, soaking everything within reach: carpets, walls, stairs and box upon box of props and costumes, scripts, posters and memorabilia.
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