Fail-Safe (n): a design feature causing a piece of machinery or other mechanism to revert to a safe condition… Fail-Safe Theatre (n, see also artistic experience, excitement, not-to-be-missed) The mission of Fail-Safe Theatre is to provide a fail-safe mechanism for the performing arts at St. Ambrose: a fun, safe, and creative outlet for students of any discipline to express themselves on stage.  Through regularly scheduled performance and design opportunities, Fail-Safe Theatre provides an energetic late-night cabaret environment for the poets, musicians, actors, filmmakers, singers, and performing artists of all kinds in the campus community.