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The audience from Hell

Sun, 8 Mar 2009, 02:14 pm
Gordon the Optom22 posts in thread

This week I heard of the latest nightmare to hit the theatre – school kids in the front row.

So what is new? As well as talking, texting and slouching, they pull faces or make gestures at the actors throughout the performance, hence trying everything in their power to throw the cast off course.

Experience

Mon, 9 Mar 2009, 05:37 pm
You see it all comes down to experience. On one or at most two occasions mass school audiences have behaved when at shows I have been involved with, usually I find them intolerable and the teachers sent with them powerless to exert any control. The school audience that came to my last Fringe show were a glorious exception paying attention and then actively and intelligently involved in a Q & A afterwards. I agree there is a serious problem with adults as well. We simply do not sell any noisy sweets at our shows. In fact we don't sell any. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

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