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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 28, 2019 19:32:00 GMT
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! What a great idea!! A link to the board bad behaviour thread and a theatre etiquette guide. Perhaps someone on here with great design skills could do one which we could download and print a few copies off each time we go to the theatre just in case?
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 28, 2019 19:54:57 GMT
Also, one man snoring in the centre of the second row, and plenty of other folk who cannot get through a mere 90 minutes without liquid from noisy fizzing bottles. Fine for a medical reason, otherwise, as we always say on here, "why?" Is there any medical condition that requires the sufferer to drink something fizzy & noisy, as opposed to still & silent, though?!
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Post by shady23 on Mar 28, 2019 20:29:11 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! I'd like us to adopt the same punishment as football. The card system. A rustle or two, a phone check... yellow card. Your warning. A second yellow and you get a red card and are sent off (out!) No disagreeing with the referee (usher) is allowed either.
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Post by david on Mar 28, 2019 22:19:17 GMT
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! I'd like us to adopt the same punishment as football. The card system. A rustle or two, a phone check... yellow card. Your warning. A second yellow and you get a red card and are sent off (out!) No disagreeing with the referee (usher) is allowed either. As an alternative to a red card, tasers are used instead?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 23:07:42 GMT
I'd like us to adopt the same punishment as football. The card system. A rustle or two, a phone check... yellow card. Your warning. A second yellow and you get a red card and are sent off (out!) No disagreeing with the referee (usher) is allowed either. As an alternative to a red card, tasers are used instead? Tasers are noisy. Simple sniper shot to the forehead. Snipers posted in the lighting rig. Job done.
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 29, 2019 0:30:35 GMT
Tasers are noisy. Simple sniper shot to the forehead. Snipers posted in the lighting rig. Job done. That's all very well but you would not have any audience left by the end of shows such as Mamma Mia! It would give a whole new meaning to the cast saying after the show - "Well the audience were dead tonight".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 0:38:03 GMT
I always think of how Michael Barrymore used to throw people out of his show, maybe someone needs to adopt that idea with phones going off.
I was reading in my local Birmingham paper a review of veteran Indie band James' concert. The band as a novelty do an acoustic support slot before their full set and it said constant crowd talking was drowning out a lot of the reflective songs. This is a band who people have paid to see and they are doing something a bit different and they cannot even listen to it!
Like at concerts when someone has to go to the bar halfway through the main act. I can understand if they want loo but is the call for an overpriced drink more important than listening to the act you have paid to see.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 6:29:29 GMT
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Post by winonaforever on Mar 29, 2019 9:24:02 GMT
As an alternative to a red card, tasers are used instead? Tasers are noisy. Simple sniper shot to the forehead. Snipers posted in the lighting rig. Job done. I'd like to apply for the position of Theatre Sniper, it would definitely guarantee me job satisfaction
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 9:26:06 GMT
Am glad someone linked to this. Was reading about it last night. I thought it was a interesting idea, you can still feel the phone vibrate through the yondr pack, so if you’re on call or there is an emergency, you can still be contacted. Of course this assumes that you have followed the instructions and have switched your phone to vibrate, otherwise you end up with a ringing phone in a locked bag that can only be turned off when you get to am unlocking station... It feels odd to me that our society has had to create an imperfect solution to an easily solved problem. Just turn your bloody phone off! (In the instance of Gadsby, I think they are more being used to stop her material being shared online, rather than creating an Elysian phone free space.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 9:51:57 GMT
you should have read the 'I am too wonderful to term my phone off during a show camp' 'I just leave it on silent camp' . on the abc (australia) facebook forums. I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. Which makes me wonder if we have all become more dumb then ever.
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Post by lynette on Mar 29, 2019 12:51:12 GMT
I don’t understand why they don’t do funny tannoy announcements and loud phone noises before a show and even after the interval. At first they did this, then they seemed to think we had learned but I think the lesson has to be repeated regularly!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 12:51:58 GMT
James (the band not men called) is notoriously the worst event for behaviour the WMC ever had and for a time halted their foray into concerts. Highlights included the man using the lift as a urinal and the men who thought they were outside while lighting up a “cigarette” but in fact were in the first floor bar...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 13:03:10 GMT
you should have read the 'I am too wonderful to term my phone off during a show camp' 'I just leave it on silent camp' . on the abc (australia) facebook forums. I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. Which makes me wonder if we have all become more dumb then ever. I've never seen the I on the end of LGB etc before, only recently saw about the Q being added. It will be the whole Alphabet soon. I always just used LBB and now stretch to LGBT but beyond that I think it is getting to long. I read somewhere there were 40 odd gender definitions.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 13:37:12 GMT
LGBTQIA+ seems to be the current commonly used acronym, you're lightyears behind if the I is new. I did enjoy the period where people were trying to make QUILTBAG a thing, it's much quicker to say, but I guess once you're used to saying LGB or LGBT or LGBTQI then rearranging the letters entirely just doesn't come as naturally as adding new ones on the end.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 14:38:03 GMT
LGBTQIA+ seems to be the current commonly used acronym, you're lightyears behind if the I is new. I did enjoy the period where people were trying to make QUILTBAG a thing, it's much quicker to say, but I guess once you're used to saying LGB or LGBT or LGBTQI then rearranging the letters entirely just doesn't come as naturally as adding new ones on the end. It is still referred to LGBT by the Company I work for and we have a lot of LGBT staff and they highlight all the various causes, rainbow pass lanyards etc. Also I've helped friends promote music gigs and many of the performers we have promoted are LGBT and I've talked to them about such things and never heard them say the extended initials. These were people who were in their early 20's so it wasn't just a generational thing by me being in my late 40's. If things are being extended then I will take note of them but it almost seems as if it could now include almost anyone. Plus Q a lot of people would naturally assume could mean Queer in an LGBT type sense. I'm using the word queer in the sense that it is used in something like Queer Eye for a Straight Guy not as any sort of derogatory sense towards the many gay people who may post on here. Sorry to have gone a bit off topic but I'm just being honest about what I know. QUILTBAG would have been a great annogram to have had btw.
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 29, 2019 15:31:30 GMT
I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. No one is all those things at once.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 16:11:28 GMT
you should have read the 'I am too wonderful to term my phone off during a show camp' 'I just leave it on silent camp' . on the abc (australia) facebook forums. I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. Which makes me wonder if we have all become more dumb then ever. You forgot to add ‘from Tasmania’ to the list. It will be all the reasons, though, with opinions expressed with extra vitriol because she’s a gender non-conforming, same-sex loving human. So how dare she etc etc. She should be made a national treasure, not attacked.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 16:19:00 GMT
I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. No one is all those things at once. Hannah, famously, self-identifies as tired. I believe @matildawormwood was being inclusive.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:35:15 GMT
you should have read the 'I am too wonderful to term my phone off during a show camp' 'I just leave it on silent camp' . on the abc (australia) facebook forums. I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. Which makes me wonder if we have all become more dumb then ever. I've never seen the I on the end of LGB etc before, only recently saw about the Q being added. It will be the whole Alphabet soon. I always just used LBB and now stretch to LGBT but beyond that I think it is getting to long. I read somewhere there were 40 odd gender definitions. "LGBT" is in any case an artificial confection, lumping together as it does two entirely different sorts of people. Gay people do not think of themselves as belonging to the other sex. Being gay is not a staging-post en route to being trans. It makes as much sense to lump LGB and T together as it would top declare that all single parents and all sex workers make up "the SPSW community".
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:37:25 GMT
I don't think it could be considered "bad behavior" if the audience didn't enjoy it enough to erupt in a standing ovation at the curtain call... Whereas a standing ovation IS bad behaviour because it forces the people behind to stand if they want to see the finale/bows.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:38:55 GMT
The audience I had at Ghost in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago. During a short period of technical difficulty, we got told over the tannoy to stay seated. Despite this, people went out to the bars. Then all through the song “With You” which came immediately as the curtain rose again, all you could hear was people opening cans and rustling bags of crisps. UGH. I felt bad for the actors too. They did a brilliant job, and it was a tough audience, ie if I hadn’t started clapping after With You, nobody would have. Then in the bows, not a single person stood. I wanted to, but I didn’t want to be the only person, as it was clear that nobody else was going to. Perhaps the audience was full of considerate people who realised how inconsiderate it is to stand and so block the view of the finale/bows of the people behind.
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Post by winonaforever on Mar 29, 2019 16:49:51 GMT
I've never seen the I on the end of LGB etc before, only recently saw about the Q being added. It will be the whole Alphabet soon. I always just used LBB and now stretch to LGBT but beyond that I think it is getting to long. I read somewhere there were 40 odd gender definitions. "LGBT" is in any case an artificial confection, lumping together as it does two entirely different sorts of people. Gay people do not think of themselves as belonging to the other sex. Being gay is not a staging-post en route to being trans. It makes as much sense to lump LGB and T together as it would top declare that all single parents and all sex workers make up "the SPSW community". I couldn't agree more!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 17:07:35 GMT
I've never seen the I on the end of LGB etc before, only recently saw about the Q being added. It will be the whole Alphabet soon. I always just used LBB and now stretch to LGBT but beyond that I think it is getting to long. I read somewhere there were 40 odd gender definitions. "LGBT" is in any case an artificial confection, lumping together as it does two entirely different sorts of people. Gay people do not think of themselves as belonging to the other sex. Being gay is not a staging-post en route to being trans. It makes as much sense to lump LGB and T together as it would top declare that all single parents and all sex workers make up "the SPSW community". I think the intention is that the LGB community has fought hard and campaigned for the recognition of our basic human rights, and now we’re using that platform to help others on their journey to equality. So yes, same sex attraction and gender identify are not the same, but the discrimination received is similar. So let’s be stronger together.
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Post by hannechalk on Mar 29, 2019 20:13:06 GMT
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