Bad Behaviour at a Show

This may not be happening at the West End now, but yikes, stans stagedooring and they ask these questions.

To the point that Jessica Chastain (currently performing A Doll’s House at Broadway) had to clarify that she’s not doing the film adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Fans and stans are fancasting her in the role of Celia St. James, the main love interest of Evelyn:





Meanwhile, someone commented in front of Jodie Comer (whose Prima Facie show is currently in previews on Broadway) that she finds Killing Eve awful. (I mean, yeah, the series finale was bad, but c’mon, Jodie doesn’t deserve to be said this in front of her)

What will the queue for the loo be like?

I'm not sure not liking the ending of Killing Eve is bad behaviour, maybe odd behaviour to tell Jodie Comer directly but since it happened at stage door and not during Prima Facie, I think it can get a free pass.

And why not focus on the amazing play you’ve just seen and tell Jodie you enjoyed that. Going with a negative about something she finished work on a couple of years ago just seems rude. Reminds me of my Mum saying to me as a kid ‘If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all’ !

Yes your mum's perfectly correct. Mum's usually are.

"We are really excited about welcoming you to Phoenix Theatre, where we want everyone to enjoy the show. With that in mind, we politely ask that you show consideration to your fellow audience members, who have come to enjoy the performances on stage.

We all have a part to play in making sure the theatre is a fantastic experience for everyone – you can help by ensuring the professionals on stage are the only people entertaining us with their performances, and by being kind to our dedicated staff who are here to make sure everybody is safe. Anti-social behaviour towards our staff or other customers will not be tolerated"


Just had this email from ATG ahead of seeing Streetcar on Saturday. Is this a new thing following the recent issues? Don't recall having an email in those terms before.

Ah thanks, I must have skim read them previously. Don't worry, I was still a model audience member 😉

Standard ATG message now I think. Have had a few each time I've booked up in Manchester lately.

So, inspired by the other thread about old theatre programmes, I've been looking through some of mine. In one from the RSC way back in the 80s is a little note next to the cast list that shows there's always been complaints about bad behaviour:

"Please do not smoke or use cameras or tape recorders in the auditorium. And please remember that noise such as whispering,coughing, rustling of programmes and the beeping of digital watches can be distracting to the performers and also spoils the performance for other members of the audience"

So maybe things weren't always as perfect as we remember them!

Last night at Shirley Valentine, when Sheridan delivers the line about the mispronunciation of the word "clitoris", someone in the box closet to the stage started shouting back that she agreed with her and Sheridan completely got thrown off by it and laughed. I think she saw the funny side of it but the person seemed to take it as permission to do similar later, which thankfully went ignored. Loads of phones going off last night too, was a night for it, seemingly!

Hmm, perhaps if it was Mahler 2 

It might just be a coincidence but Vanessa Feltz has not appeared on This Morning since the "incident".
I only know this because I am currently off work sick so it's on in the background. Just so you know incase you think that I would normally watch it 😀