A sign of mainstream breakout?

[jsburbidge]

Last night I was at a performance of  The Dream in High Park, which is The Winter's Tale this year (non-Torontonians: this is an annual open-air Shakespeare performance which started out as simply A Midsummer Night's Dream as a one-off on a natural dell, using the woods as a integral part of the show; since then it's varied between several "green world" Shakespeare comedies and romances, and has developed infrastructure as well -- a stone-step amphitheatre and permanent buildings) and was reading Charlie Stross's Rule 34 before the show.  A man a little bit along from where I was sitting asked about it, saying that he'd heard people at his work raving about it  that morning -- but he had never heard of Halting State, or (as far as I could tell) anything by Stross.  This may be an indication of breakout into the general market...

Oh, the play was OK, if somewhat severely cut (the whole first scene was cut with its background information, the "Affection, thy intention stabs the centre" monologue retained that line, but nothing after it, etc.).