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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 14:13:32 GMT
I guess it helps that she's the boss at a reasonably desirable workplace. I'm not sure I'd go much further than a cheeky bit of teasing either...
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Post by rockinrobin on Sept 30, 2017 18:12:46 GMT
The Ferryman this afternoon. Two people hunting for free seats in the stalls because, quote, "they couldn't f***ing see anything" from their dress circle seats just behind me (which weren't bad, if you ask me - and surely my hair wasn't restricting their view either...). Needless to say, all seats turned out to be taken so they were wandering around and complaining. Then they eventually returned to their dress circle row.
And then the eating began. They did not return after the second interval. Phew.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 1, 2017 10:46:00 GMT
Yesterday at The TIn Drum the person sitting next to me spent the interval loudly reading out news stories from her phone to the man sitting next to her and everyone else within earshot (she was quite tall and loud). She did this right up until the lights went down for the second half. It really broke the mood - yes, I'm sure what you are - in effect -telling us ALL about is bad but we are in a theatre to lose ourselves in the story being told onstage, not the Euro pages of the Guardian. I'm always surprised that people can get to a theatre and then talk loudly about their expensive holiday destinations, friend's recent house move ("and she's within walking distance of Waitrose!" before a play on people having benefits sanctioned), read a novel etc. right up till the start.
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Post by frosty on Oct 2, 2017 13:29:21 GMT
At the Norman Conquests at Chichester on Saturday, there was an old girl in front of me that clearly thought she was watching something on the telly in her own front room. Lots of comments to the actors like 'Calm down, calm down', or 'Look out, she'll catch you', and 'ooh that'll serve her right' etc etc. And what is it about audiences at Chichester finding the most bizarre things hilarious? Someone loudly stirring a cup of tea on stage made several people laugh like drains. I wanted to call out (in my best Blanche Hunt voice) "You should try Book of Mormon - you'll die!"
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 2, 2017 18:49:51 GMT
At the Norman Conquests at Chichester on Saturday, there was an old girl in front of me that clearly thought she was watching something on the telly in her own front room. Lots of comments to the actors like 'Calm down, calm down', or 'Look out, she'll catch you', and 'ooh that'll serve her right' etc etc. And what is it about audiences at Chichester finding the most bizarre things hilarious? Someone loudly stirring a cup of tea on stage made several people laugh like drains. I wanted to call out (in my best Blanche Hunt voice) "You should try Book of Mormon - you'll die!" The golden generation population of Chichester is what makes the town so unique and the theatre such a pull
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Post by Backdrifter on Oct 2, 2017 22:40:35 GMT
and then talk loudly about their expensive holiday destinations You've reminded me of a sketch from 90s show Absolutely - two terribly middle class men in a bar, one saying (murmuring) "I picked up the keys to the -" (suddenly shouting his lungs out) "HOUSE IN TUSCANY!!!!" and so on, until they start using loud hailers. If I realise I'm nearby people of this ilk I always expect them to do that thing of saying in a sort of slightly hushed way about their own child, "He's on the autistic spectrum, you know" as if he's just achieved a high grade in violin.
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Post by Backdrifter on Oct 2, 2017 22:50:57 GMT
Someone loudly stirring a cup of tea on stage made several people laugh like drains. The thing is, I can see that could be quite funny. That said, I used to loudly stir my tea at a previous workplace and it really annoyed quite a few people. It all came out in a rush - one person commented on it then that was the cue for several others to breathlessly reveal they too were irritated by it but had held back from saying so. It seemed it was that I stirred it not just loudly, but super-fast (something I learned from my dad). I remember someone saying they were infuriated by a colleague who used to stir his tea, then use the spoon to tap out on the cup rim 'dink dink da-dink dink...' but he never did the final 'dink-dink'. It drove this other bloke up the wall. Did you know that on the Voyager probe, among all the classical recordings etc there is a recording of 'dink dink da-dink dink...' but missing the final 'dink-dink' on the grounds that there may one day be a transmission back to us by aliens who realise they are to supply the dink-dink? Anyway, as you were.
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Post by anthony on Oct 4, 2017 19:44:51 GMT
Saw Woman in Black last night. We had the understudy Actor (Raymond Rose), who I thought was great! Perhaps the best understudy I've ever seen!
The theatre was near empty, I don't believe the circles were open, but can't be 100% sure, but the stalls were only about 60% full (and obviously the fortune is quite a small theatre!). The moment it started, a group of people in front of me to the right began to open bags of crisps, whilst the man sitting next to opened and proceeded to close, and then open again a bottle of pepsi, letting the air escape so slowly and creating a noise that likely everyone in the auditorium could hear given it's small capacity.
A group of tourists sat in front of me to the left. Now, I expected laughter after each scary occurrence, but they laughed, and laughed and laughed and laughed! Literally for minutes after the fright happened. The actors did their best to continue, but they must have heard it go on and on and on and on.
Obviously no interval and perhaps it would have been wise for them to have informed everyone properly (there is a sign outside of the box office, but if you have your tickets already, then you miss this sign completely!) that they would be required to sit still for approx 1 hour 45 minutes. People were getting up to the toilet continually. The issue is that there are curtains over the doors and then a bolt at the top of the door, which they bolt shut as the doors don't have locks, so it created a lot of noise every single time someone needed to go (6-7 times throughout the performance).
This isn't bad behaviour at all, but just wanted to mention it:
About 10 minutes before the end of the performance, the near entire row in front of us got up and began to leave. I was confused - why would you leave so close to the end and whilst the story was actually being explained to us? They were with an older lady, who once she got into the isle fainted. I'm not sure what happened, perhaps the show was too scary for her? Either way, just wanted to say the actors were amazing at working through it. Like I said, a small theatre that was no where near full - they were completely aware at what was happening, especially with the gasps from the audience. They must have been pretty terrified, especially the guy playing the actor as when the fainting actually happened, he was facing the audience and likely saw the whole thing.
Think I've been spoilt... the last 3-4 trips to the theatre have been amazingly pleasant. No annoyances at all, perhaps now even the smallest of things are beginning to annoy me!
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Post by longinthetooth on Oct 4, 2017 20:35:02 GMT
I find I'm actively looking for things that qualify as bad behaviour now, just to report back to this thread!
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Post by richey on Oct 5, 2017 6:54:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 8:38:22 GMT
Poor Hazell. I wonder if before they left she turned to her other half and said "maybe (we should call it a day)"?
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Post by richey on Oct 5, 2017 8:46:41 GMT
Poor Hazell. I wonder if before they left she turned to her other half and said "maybe (we should call it a day)"? She was probably Searchin for a response. I am actually guilty of bad behaviour to her myself. I was helping backstage at a Pride event a few years ago handing out artist wristbands and I asked her who she was. I felt awful as she was lovely
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Post by wickedgrin on Oct 5, 2017 9:43:21 GMT
Not bad behaviour as such but the audience at The Norman Conquests the other day were SO old! I am old myself but I was the one of the youngest in the audience! Leaving the theatre is a NIGHTMARE as it was built before disabled access and there are stairs even to the stalls, and it takes FOREVER to get out as the elderly negotiate the stairs with sticks one step at a time and then have to stop mid way down to catch their breath! You just have to queue to get out!
Plus the amount of coughing and sneezing! It's a wonder some of them made it to the end of the performance!
I felt I was among the walking dead!!
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 5, 2017 12:33:55 GMT
Apparently, whilst he's in Chichester, Sir Ian went to see one of the Norman Conquest plays on Tuesday afternoon. So everyone is sat there when, suddenly, a mobile phone starts ringing. Yes, you've guessed it.
It's in today's paper, so it must be true!
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Post by wickedgrin on Oct 5, 2017 12:50:47 GMT
Spotted Jonathan Bailey in the audience but not Sir Ian! A mobile phone did go off (very loudly) during the afternoons performance!!!!
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 5, 2017 12:56:08 GMT
"It can be so embarrassing when theatregoers forget to turn off their mobile phone and its ringing interrupts a performance. Actors get very cross about it. A chirpy trilling was heard from the front row of the stalls at the Chichester Festival Theatre on Tuesday afternoon during a performance of Alan Ayckbourn’s Living Together. As the audience looked accusingly at each other, Ian McKellen, who was taking time out before his evening performance as King Lear, sheepishly reached into his pocket and silenced the ringing. Last year McKellen said in an interview that he hated answering the phone because it was almost always bad news. “It very rarely rings and that suits me down to the ground.” " Source: The Times www.thetimes.co.uk/article/not-a-ringing-endorsement-5s0qfb2w2
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Post by rockinrobin on Oct 5, 2017 12:58:01 GMT
I find I'm actively looking for things that qualify as bad behaviour now, just to report back to this thread! Ha, I'm doing the same! I'm only afraid that the next step might be turning into some sort of a theatrical agent provocateur...
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Post by showgirl on Oct 5, 2017 18:28:07 GMT
Not bad behaviour as such but the audience at The Norman Conquests the other day were SO old! I am old myself but I was the one of the youngest in the audience! Leaving the theatre is a NIGHTMARE as it was built before disabled access and there are stairs even to the stalls, and it takes FOREVER to get out as the elderly negotiate the stairs with sticks one step at a time and then have to stop mid way down to catch their breath! You just have to queue to get out! Plus the amount of coughing and sneezing! It's a wonder some of them made it to the end of the performance! I felt I was among the walking dead!! This strikes such a chord, and applies at other venues, too, particularly the Yvonne Arnaud in Guildford. I too am old but relatively young compared to the standard audience at CFT and Guildford, and have resigned myself to missing trains I would otherwise catch were my exit clear. I quite understand that older people are likely to be less mobile and to need sticks, helping hands and pauses; what I don't understand is why they don't therefore wait and allow the more able-bodied patrons to leave first? It would save the latter group so much frustration and remove the sense of pressure the less agile must surely feel at holding things up.
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Post by joem on Oct 5, 2017 23:31:15 GMT
How about people who get to their seats and possessively hang their coats from the back? Stuff the people who've actually paid for the seat behind.
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Post by showgirl on Oct 6, 2017 3:22:50 GMT
How about people who get to their seats and possessively hang their coats from the back? Stuff the people who've actually paid for the seat behind. Haven't encountered that but if I did, and it bothered me, I would politely suggest to the person in front that they might like to move their coat as I wouldn't want to damage it or inadvertently get it entangled with my bags.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 8:19:33 GMT
How about people who get to their seats and possessively hang their coats from the back? Stuff the people who've actually paid for the seat behind. Oh I love it when people do that. If I need to wipe my nose, rub chocolate off my fingers or mop up any spilled wine (which I rarely do) it's so much more convenient than having to rummage around in my bag for a tissue. So very thoughtful of the person in front.
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Post by rockinrobin on Oct 6, 2017 9:06:31 GMT
Not to mention those people who use the back of your seat as a coat hanger - arrrgh... Hugely popular on airplanes these days.
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Post by adrianics on Oct 6, 2017 9:08:17 GMT
I find I'm actively looking for things that qualify as bad behaviour now, just to report back to this thread! I find that there's so much bad behaviour I've come to accept as a given (talking particularly) that I only come to this thread if it's really notable.
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Post by anita on Oct 6, 2017 9:39:25 GMT
People having a picnic during the interval at "Annie" yesterday afternoon.
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Post by tonyloco on Oct 6, 2017 10:25:04 GMT
resigned myself to missing trains I would otherwise catch were my exit clear. One thing I do is scan the auditorium for alternative exits. Mostly, people want to leave by the same door they came in. They ignore all other exits - meaning you can quite often make a far faster escape. Main ones for me are the stalls at the Royal Court - don't fight your way up the narrow stairs, just go straight ahead up the stairs to the fire exit to the street and the Palladium front stalls - use the side exits rather than go to the back, and in the rear stalls use the door to the right that goes directly to the street. Yes, Monkey, but it didn't work for me at the front of the stalls at Richmond on Tuesday night. I usually follow the slowly-moving line of ancients (of whom I am now one) up the main aisles so I can visit the loo on the way out, but this time I thought I would be clever and use the exit near the stage as I wasn't making for the loo. Mistake. That exit took me into the bar, and into a small group of people who were looking around in a confused state wondering where to go next. We eventually spotted the exit doors (which were not hooked open as I think they should have been) which took us slap bang into the middle of the line of still slow moving oldies who by this time were clogging up the main exit doors out of the foyer. I guess you win some and you lose some!
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