Bad Behaviour at a Show

He was able to identify the exact source of his cold?

Go on, but shouldn't Southern be explictly mentioned in the title?

OMG. A woman has just pulled out the largest bottle of wine possible out of her handbag in the auditorium which is definitely not allowed! And I of course have to mention the constant movement of people getting up and B the using their damn phones to light the way back to the seat. Grrrr!!!

Someone fell asleep and started snoring two seats away from me at No Man's Land. Was tempted to wake her up, but decided to ignore it in the end.

Muggles!

How about phone said daughter before the show and say you have arrived at the show, and then go and see her afterwards as opposed to irritating those sat behind who can't avoid the glow stick waving. Or if you desperately have to wave it then you can once at the start to show you are there, no need to do it more than once, your point has been made and daughter will have seen it the first time. Your slack cutting was far too kind.

As someone who lives in the North East I must agree.

My favourite was Thriller Live which was traumatic enough in itself, but we were in the gallery and the 'ladies' in front thought they were at a disco. Standing up and dancing with arms and drinks in the air. When one of the staff said nobody behind you can see a thing they started kicking off. People just walked out in the end because of them

A phone went off when we saw Harry Potter on Friday-part 2 & pretty much 5 minutes before the end of the play. The family behind us also talked throughout Part 1 & ignored any death stares & shhhhs, but were a bit better for Part 2. I do understand their daughter was excited but it did ruin parts of it for us.

Maybe they thought it was a Figurative Expressionism exhibition and such human outbursts were stylistically in keeping.

Feel the need to report the most irritating bad behaviour at Vanities yesterday.

At one of the most impactful moments of the show, when the three women realise they have nothing in common any more, a mobile phone started ringing, LOUDLY, from someone in (I think) the front row. The Trafalgar Studios are absolutely tiny, meaning the sound bounced around the whole theatre, completely killing the moment. The phone kept ringing for what felt like an age, getting even louder as it was removed from a bag and the person decided to check who it was that was calling them, then clamber out of the auditorium to answer the phone. I have to give credit to all three ladies, especially Ashleigh Gray, who had a poignant solo and managed to stay completely in character and not express the anger present on the faces of the other audience members. Who are these people that think they have the right to ignore all notices and disrupt a show through their sheer arrogance? I can completely understand how Patti Lupone would snatch a phone from an audience member or stop the performance to let everyone know what a tw*t they are. If you have an unavoidable phone call imminent, DON'T GO TO THE THEATRE.

I recently went to a lecture given by Professor Robert Winston in a provincial theatre. The lecture was entitled "Modifying Humans."

How I bloomin' well wish someone could have 'modified' the person sitting next to me.......if you're reading this madam, I paid for the WHOLE seat, including the part your greatly spreading posterior was resting upon.

And breathe, 2, 3, 4....

I'm genuinely surprised that anyone would prefer people having to squeeze past them rather than considerately climbing over a row of seats to avoid this. I do sometimes resort to some scrambling myself, but either to avoid disturbing a number of much older and apparently less mobile patrons, or in desperation to catch my train home at the end, when those closest to the aisle show no sign of realising that it's time to leave. Actually, I think that's how I injured my knee, so maybe I'd better start acting my age, but it has always been done with good intentions.