Once again, social media has been bombarded with tales of St Kentigern College in the suburbs of Auckland and its horrific production of Sweeney Todd, Jr., where two students were severely injured by a real straight razor during the show. The rehash in the news is due to publication of the New Zealand WorkSafe incident report on the April 2016 event.
Are you YD’d out? This is the law founded by psychologists Yerkes and Dodson, which says that performance ability will increase with physiological and mental stimulation – or ‘arousal’ as they called it.
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