I do not mean to belittle this, but you need to give the Forum more info on this...
"I was beaten up by backstage workers of the 'Cats' performance in Seoul, Korea which resulted in 6 hours in hospital and significant medical costs including a brain scan."
"Nobody wishes to take responsibility for this and they are hoping I'm just going to let it drop."
"For further details, contact 'The Really Useful Group'"
Backstage - You have not mentioned why you were backstage, or who you were with. Backstage crew members do not "usually" attack people without reason. In both cases I was backstage, I was WITH a member of the CREW - In the States, I was with the Company Manager; and in Edinburgh, I was with the Chief Electrician. Backstage is dangerous for the non-theatre person, and security will definitely tell you to leave, and will escort you, sometimes forcefully, out of the backstage area - IF you are back there unauthorized! There is insurance to think of, as well as too many expensive and irreplaceable objects back there...
Employees - Backstage have three sets of employees, depending upon the country and/or the production: The TOUR (CATS) Crew, the Local Theatre Union crew, and the Theatre or House Crew. I am not sure of the composition of the Korean Tour, but I did read that they majority are Korean, and the other portion is part of the Brisbane Tent Crew.
See RUG - I checked "News" and no mention is made of this. If you wish members of the Forum to check this out, we need the URL to the report.
Again, I am not trying to make light of this, but I certainly need more information. There are two sides to any incident, so we need to have yours as well as RUG to make any call on it. If you were injured, no matter what the reason, I hope you recover well.
