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Post by freckles on Oct 13, 2019 10:20:01 GMT
As well as Tweeting I hope they are informing the front of house staff where the offenders are. I'd say INSTEAD of tweeting they should most definitely be informing FOH! Absolutely this. I so often see tweets from performers along the lines of “lady in A16 on your phone, we can all see you”; why on earth this individual is left to carry on for the duration of the show is beyond me. The cast should simply be able to report to any of the crew that a phone is on in the stalls, or wherever, and a message then relayed to FOH. Although FOH teams vary wildly in how much interest they take in the audience, apart from flogging maximum programmes and snacks. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 13, 2019 13:25:43 GMT
Lasers. Those laser pointy things where you can put a red dot on people. That’s the answer. Yeah I know they can blind the person if you put it in their eye but that’ll learn ‘em eh 🙂 A taser would be more effective. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 13, 2019 15:53:50 GMT
To give the OP questions some sort of context, for how terrific actors are and I am a slave of their ability and worship them from the foot of the stage from the stalls in awe at their jaw dropping brilliance, like all of us doom this board. But actors have feelings, emotions and opinions too, see how different a performance can be after bad reviews/closing notices posted to see these behaviours occur, this goes to prove they’re also human and like us use social media to let off a bit of steam and angst. Perhaps these behaviours go into their toolkit in making them more refined at their stagecraft.
So perhaps letting off a bit if steam is a force for good and proves they’re not, god forbid automatons, when that time happens it time to darken every theatre.
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Post by duncan on Oct 13, 2019 15:59:50 GMT
It wasn't until I had a stage seat for a show, in a 1900 capacity venue, that I realised how much you can actually see of the audience from the stage even when the house lights are down.
I think most numpties think that because its dark no one will be able to see.
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Oct 13, 2019 17:04:56 GMT
I realised this at Charing Cross Theatre, with the new transverse layout. You really can see so much of the audience on the other side, and especially a phone screen lights up the person's entire face, bathing them in a pool of light.
(Another reason I dislike that new layout at CC, actually - so easy for audience members to be distracting on the other side)
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Post by londonmzfitz on Oct 14, 2019 16:41:31 GMT
Same thing with a person throwing her drink at me after I shushed her happened with me last year. And guess what? FOX did nothing. She was local, British, elderly and “respectful”, and I have accent. So they said they can’t do anything as apparently it was I who started the row. This is why I seriously hate Hornchurch theatre now. And yes. It happened in the middle of front row with the whole cast seeing it. I am still humiliated and can’t properly talk about it without starting to cry. That is appalling and I've - on the strength of this - unsubscribed from Queens Theatre Hornchurch (got on my high horse and THAT'LL teach them)! Seriously, Stasia, awful. I've had issues with other patrons and I think I'd have died if that'd happened to me. |
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