Possible Clues:

• Uses delaying tactics to gain time
• High in the ship or near to the stage where it stops
• Cuts out in parterre?
• Part in theatre plays, for some time
• Theatre seats nearest stage
• For the animals or for the show
• Stands to get theatre seats
• Stops suddenly like engine out of fuel
• Of engine, cuts out
• They are in the market (for theatre seats?)