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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 20, 2019 23:06:47 GMT
Dramatic irony: when the first scene of a play has an emotional monologue intentionally interrupted by a character's phone ringing, and the last emotional monologue (of the first half at any rate) is unintentionally interrupted by an audience member's phone ringing. (Downstate NT.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 23:10:52 GMT
I mean... it wasn’t bad behaviour per say, but not many people seemed very engaged. There was plenty of checking phones too which just... ugh. Can people not even last 2ish hours without checking Facebook/WhatsApp?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 14:08:08 GMT
I mean... it wasn’t bad behaviour per say, but not many people seemed very engaged. There was plenty of checking phones too which just... ugh. Can people not even last 2ish hours without checking Facebook/WhatsApp? Again, an un-engaged audience is probably a fault with the production rather than patrons.
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Post by catcat100 on Mar 22, 2019 23:36:14 GMT
It wasn't your coat on my chair that made me throw it at you with a lot more vigour than was necessary.
It was the fact that you thought it was ok to also place your bare feet on my chair as well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 12:19:00 GMT
Local Amdram last night. Now I'll let the chattering between scene changes go, we're all being a bit chill as we're in a church hall to see our mates. I will not however let the rustling for, and crunching of a bag of Walkers Cheese and Onion in my ear go. That one you're still in theatre audience jail for.
Shout out to my friend's 7 year old neice who managed to sit through a 2.5 hour Agatha Christie with more patience and less fidgeting than I managed (my arse, frankly was numb)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 21:19:15 GMT
You want bad behaviour at the theatre?? Playing back your recordings of the first act on your phone during the interval. That’s real bad behaviour.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 22:32:11 GMT
At the Donmar, seemingly intelligent, bright (and often young) people were unable to link the concepts of "stalls," "circle" row letter and seat number together to put themselves in the right places. Darlings, you may have your eyes on your Iphones, but if you raise them, engage whatever passes for thinking equipment between your ears and add a splash of common sense... you will know instantly that stalls A41 and 42 cannot possibly be anywhere near C9, and nor can circle B 1 and 2 be close to stalls D30 now can it?! The absolute SHEER VOLUME of people who come up to the side circle at the Donmar, see the three rows, and just can't work out which one is C. They baffle me, Every Single TIME. I get if you've gone the wrong way for your seat number, ushers are thin on the ground up there and that sign is vaguely ambiguous, but working out which row is which ain't rocket science! Honestly, my most over-used phrase in any theatre is "I'm [seat number], if that helps" for a reason...
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Post by richey on Mar 23, 2019 22:42:47 GMT
You want bad behaviour at the theatre?? Playing back your recordings of the first act on your phone during the interval. That’s real bad behaviour. guy sat next to me at Les Mis in Manchester did that a few weeks ago then proceeded to transfer it all to a second device. I considered reporting it to a member of staff but they were all too busy handing out food bags
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 24, 2019 23:37:07 GMT
Not sure it was bad, exactly, but irritates. I think there is a gap in the market for an app and equipment that guides people from the street to their exact seat in a theatre, thanks to a network of transponders set into corridor walls and the seats themselves. Like this kind of thing?
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Mar 25, 2019 13:33:48 GMT
I saw The American Clock on Saturday evening and was sat to the right of a man with two large backpacks between his legs and his leg was encroaching quite far into my space. Luckily the two seats to the left of him were empty so I asked if perhaps he'd like to move over one and then he'd have a more central seat and we'd both have more leg room. He spent the majority of Act 1 asleep (and didn't wake up at the interval so I had to go the long way round to get an ice cream) but when Act 2 started he came back to his original seat (the seat in front of it was now empty which I presume was his reasoning for it) but he just seemed to be very passive aggressive i9n the way he did it and bumped me on the way down (it felt purposeful but maybe not). He spent the second Act asleep as well anyway so the better view was useless to him but thankfully he moved his bags to the side and so I wasn't completely cramped. It was just quite intimidating as I'm quite small and there was another large man to my right (who had very long legs but managed to keep them to himself despite being much longer than the offending man's legs). It was not the most pleasant experience by any means.
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Post by peggs on Mar 25, 2019 14:50:22 GMT
How did he get in with two large back packs? Cloakroom full I assume as I was sent back with a smallish one when they first brought in their bag rule.
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Post by david on Mar 25, 2019 23:51:52 GMT
A shoutout to the various audience members at tonight’s performance of Abigail’s Party at the Liverpool Playhouse who decided to provide a running commentary to their friends / significant other of what they where seeing on stage. If you want to discuss aspects the performance, please save it for the interval or post show, not while the performance is going on. Alternatively, you can join theatreboard.com and post your thoughts about the play on here so we can have a good discussion about them.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Mar 26, 2019 0:20:06 GMT
How did he get in with two large back packs? Cloakroom full I assume as I was sent back with a smallish one when they first brought in their bag rule. I didn't even know there was a cloakroom at the Old Vic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 7:43:38 GMT
In fairness, is the cloakroom accessible at the moment? I want to say it must be, because it's so near the front of the building (literally on the right as you go through the main door; if you're going to the box office (assuming it's still there) then it's on the right of that as well, tucked in that corner), but if someone's sitting in the stalls and thus has been instructed to enter the building by a side door while they're working on the building, then they wouldn't get anywhere near the cloakroom.
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Post by peggs on Mar 26, 2019 12:21:12 GMT
Fair point, you probably wouldn't go looking for it and certainly not if you don't know it exists.
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Post by danieljohnson14 on Mar 26, 2019 17:26:29 GMT
Not bad behaviour in the show itself per-se but I kinda got felt up by a stranger when leaving Follies at the National today.
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 26, 2019 17:33:29 GMT
Not bad behaviour in the show itself per-se but I kinda got felt up by a stranger when leaving Follies at the National today. So @ryan was at Follies this afternoon?
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 26, 2019 17:36:35 GMT
In fairness, is the cloakroom accessible at the moment? I want to say it must be, because it's so near the front of the building (literally on the right as you go through the main door; if you're going to the box office (assuming it's still there) then it's on the right of that as well, tucked in that corner), but if someone's sitting in the stalls and thus has been instructed to enter the building by a side door while they're working on the building, then they wouldn't get anywhere near the cloakroom. I think I saw someone being directed from the side entrance to the cloakroom when I was there the other week. I just had a look at their bags policy - www.oldvictheatre.com/your-visit/thingsWhich is a weird policy as that would depend on the size of the rucksack!
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Post by danieljohnson14 on Mar 26, 2019 17:40:16 GMT
Not bad behaviour in the show itself per-se but I kinda got felt up by a stranger when leaving Follies at the National today. So @ryan was at Follies this afternoon? 😂😂 no, although ironically I am meeting him in about five minutes!
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Mar 28, 2019 11:01:52 GMT
oops
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Mar 28, 2019 11:08:18 GMT
Two incidents yesterday, first at the matinee of Jesus Hopped, a group of loud schoolkids in the balcony, had to be told to be quiet after the show started, but settled down fine for the rest of the show, until... {Spoiler - click to view} at the end, during the bit where the prison guard does the countdown moving to different parts of the balcony, after he said "5 minutes" about 20 seconds after one of the kids mimiced him with a rather loud "5 minutes", everybody in the place heard it and the cast did very well to ignore it. Very naughty.
And then at the evening Follies, half a dozen teens in a row next to me right at the back of the day seats in the circle, chatting to each other, moving, gesturing, just like they were watching a movie at home, for about the first 10 minutes. I am afraid I lost my temper and snapped at them, turning suddenly to them and firmly telling them that they werent at home sitting on there sofa, with an expletitive added as well. Not a peep out of them for the remaining 2 hours.
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Mar 28, 2019 11:10:18 GMT
Ok sorry for making a mess of the previous two posts, thought I had got the hang on spoilers but obviously not. anyway to finish {Spoiler - click to view} during the bit at the end of Jesus Hopped, where the prison guard does the countdown from various different parts of the balcony, after he shouts "5 minutes" 15 seconds later one of the kids copies him and says loudly "5 minutes", everybody heard it and the cast did very well to ignore it. Very naughty.,
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 28, 2019 11:11:52 GMT
I am afraid I lost my temper and snapped at them, turning suddenly to them and firmly telling them that they werent at home sitting on there sofa, with an expletitive added as well. Not a peep out of them for the remaining 2 hours. Well done you!!! I too will not tolerate bad behaviour if it is in my vicinity. Doing nothing merely enables it!
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 28, 2019 18:37:21 GMT
I am afraid I lost my temper and snapped at them, turning suddenly to them and firmly telling them that they werent at home sitting on there sofa, with an expletitive added as well. Not a peep out of them for the remaining 2 hours. Well done you!!! I too will not tolerate bad behaviour if it is in my vicinity. Doing nothing merely enables it! This
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Mar 28, 2019 19:27:33 GMT
A shoutout to the various audience members at tonight’s performance of Abigail’s Party at the Liverpool Playhouse who decided to provide a running commentary to their friends / significant other of what they where seeing on stage. If you want to discuss aspects the performance, please save it for the interval or post show, not while the performance is going on. Alternatively, you can join theatreboard.com and post your thoughts about the play on here so we can have a good discussion about them. Here’s an idea. We could design a leaflet that any of us could hand out to transgressors at the appropriate moment, guiding them to this board followed by a list of bad behaviour examples for any eventuality. Indulging in a bit of leafletting would help those worried about being confrontational, as well as being educational and entertaining at the same time!
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