"Its official Actors are RUDE, negative and general boors! The actions of a certain actor are obviously that of a madman and my suggestion is we ban theatres. After all when one finds oneself in the theatre we do not have the right to talk to our fellow patrons, our mobile phones must be turned off and we must sit still in perfect silence. Then there is the awful jokes we have to endure, the hammy over-pronunciation of every word in every Shakespeare play and the fact that everyone knows the twist to 'The Mousetrap' but isn't allowed to say. Its all rather fascist really isn't it? Its like a teacher telling you off. I say ban this 'theatre', ban the actors and ban performing arts, its a waste of public money and my bloody time.
Theatre is too dangerous and this latest maniac is living proof. What is the Government going to do about this issue that burns in the heart of our nation? Until they realise actors are more dangerous than hoodies and terrorists nothing in this country is going to improve."
This story is important as people always blow things out of proportion, an actor got angry at the perceived disrespect of this audience and got in someones face. Is that a reason to charge him with assault? I think not but who knows what a judge will say? The fact is this is happening more often, I went to the theatre 3 weeks ago to see The Mousetrap and besides us there were two people talking, behind us a man snoring and nattering everywhere it seemed. People were texting, it is disrespectful to the actors but they need to remember when Shakespeare was around they had to play over the sounds of the crowd, of the street hawkers selling their wares. So do we performers need to lighten up a bit? Or do we need to curb peoples behaviour at the theatre? Make up your own mind, me? Well I would just ignore them in the crowd and carry on acting but thats just me.
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