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The audience from Hell

Sun, 8 Mar 2009, 02:14 pm

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.

Curiosity killed the Cat Prince

Thu, 12 Mar 2009, 06:46 pm

Freddie Badgery

You might have a point there. However, what's even more curious is the fact that I saw Romeo and Juliet done by Grads in the New Fortune theatre some years ago, sitting amidst a school audience that was, putting not too fine a point on it, the most atrociously behaved gathering of little pricks to ever emerge from puberty with all their chromosomes intact. So I'm disinclined to agree with your theory at this point in time... apart from the peacocks. :) UPDATE- We had another well behaved school crowd again tonight. Mmm, peacocks. freddie the rocking jedi badger (theatre bum and proud of it)

Thread (22 posts)

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The audience from Hell— Gordon the Optom8 Mar 2009

Lets not label everyone with the one tag shall we please?— kerri8 Mar 2009
- I agree! Coming from a— Garreth8 Mar 2009
Children's Theatre— Amy Welsh8 Mar 2009
- I'm actually thinking of— Garreth8 Mar 2009
Tags and Pidgeon Holes— Taurean9 Mar 2009
Experience— Logos9 Mar 2009
Student Audiences— Walter Plinge10 Mar 2009
The same can be said for— AeonMUA12 Mar 2009
Last night...— Freddie Badgery12 Mar 2009
- Curiouser and Curiouser.....— Taurean12 Mar 2009
  - Curiosity killed the Cat Prince— Freddie Badgery12 Mar 2009
    - History— Labrug13 Mar 2009
    - Merchant— Pamelas14 Mar 2009
      - ···
        Can we? Thanks for the— Walter Plinge14 Mar 2009
        ···
        Can, not May— crgwllms15 Mar 2009
        ···
        Ah yes, of course you can .— Tim Prosser16 Mar 2009
  - Ye Gods forbid that high— Garreth13 Mar 2009
    - One of the funniest— Pamelas14 Mar 2009
Speaking of graduates— Na12 Mar 2009
A R&J performance from days of yore— Rapunzel14 Mar 2009
Entering the school kid row...— crgwllms15 Mar 2009

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