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Will you PLEASE be quiet??!!

Mon, 26 Aug 2002, 09:26 am
Leah Maher32 posts in thread
Hey kids,

Not wanting to take attention away from the interesting three way romance developing in the "Reviewers in the Missed" thread, an interesting point has been raised way down there in the Reviews forum; what do you do about noisy audience members?

The amazing Mr Kelso in the equally amazing Copenhagen at the Octogon very recently apparently employed the simple break of character and "Would you please be quiet, the rest of the audience is tying to listen." before returning to character and picking up from where he had been so rudely interupted.

Is this the best way to go about it? Or should you just ignore it and hope it goes away? Or send a runner out in the interval to hunt down the culprits and have a quiet word? Or get the cast and crew together in the car park afterwards to make sure these inconsiderate audience members never bother another actor again?

Suggestions? Stories? Annecdotes?

Leah

Re: Will you PLEASE be quiet??!!

Tue, 27 Aug 2002, 08:15 pm
I saw the event in question and I must say I don't think Geoff actually broke character. I'd say he stayed in his 'Heisenberg' character and told the audience to be quiet because what he was about to say was important, then got back to what he was saying.
That's why at interval some friends and I were discussing if it was actually in the play!

Cheers
Nath

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