Are Theatres Scared Of Tackling Bad Behaviour?

I'm a Hotel Chocolate convert. There is one at both Victoria and London Bridge Stations which I visit if I have to wait for my train. Lovely chocolate but bad for my bank account and my weight, so almost relieved when I have to rush for the train and don't have time to browse!

Man cannot live by chocolate alone, but this woman often gives it a good try.

My favourite Thorntons vs Hotel Chocolat story ...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566189/Thorntons-man-quits-over-chocolate-squishing.html

Back to topic...

I think it is naive to expect better standards of behaviour than can be found elsewhere in the country. Manners are so appalling and selfishness so rife that it would be a miracle if it were not to be found in a theatre auditorium, too.

The thing I find most repellent is the way people are so completely unapologetic about their selfish lack of consideration for others. It's their right to do whatever they please, it would seem.

I don't think "PC" has anything to do with it (apart from my distaste for the term and what it's morphed into). More like myopia and entitlement.

I visited my first Swedish theatre at Stockholm two weeks ago, I was a bit concerned as there was no ushers to be seen in the auditorium but I have never witnessed a better behaving audience as that! Although they sold a lot of noisemaking snacks there, I didn't notice anybody eating them during the play and did't notice anybody consuming any drinks in the auditorium (only outsite before the play and in the interval -don't know if it's forbidden to take them in or not). People coming quite late in were truthly apologetic about their rude behaviour of coming late and sitting in the middle of the row. People sitting at the ailes waiting long at the side before they sat down. Mobiles were switched off in time and no mobile did go off at all during the performance.
Althought it took some people a long time to get out of their seats no one was pushing or climbing over seats. People noticing they were a bit slow and others wanted to pass hurried to move out of the way. The whole audience seemed to be engaged and very interested in the play and gave a good applause and didn't rush out before the end of the curtain call (three bows instead of the regular two in Britain). The actors enjoyed the particularly great audience on that evening as I did myself. My friend I went with went also the evening before. She is no regular theatregoer, she also didn't notice any bad bevaviour the day before, only that the audience seemed partly a bit bored and not that interested.

Awww you'd miss me if I went to Sweden! 

Lol cheeky