Uncle Vernon Gets Stroppy.
Tue, 29 Nov 2005, 10:17 amWalter Plinge7 posts in thread
Uncle Vernon Gets Stroppy.
Tue, 29 Nov 2005, 10:17 am"F**k Off!" Griffiths Tells Audience Member.
When an audience member's mobile phone went off for the third time in the matinee of Heroes at Wyndham's on Saturday (19th November), actor Richard Griffiths, in the middle of a long speech towards the end of the play, lost his temper and asked if it was going to ring again or if he could finish the play.
"ThereÂ’s 750 people sitting in here, and if I was them IÂ’d sue you for spoiling their afternoon," he said. "In fact, why donÂ’t you leave the theatre now? F*** off!"
Another mobile had rung twice in the previous night's performance, which led the play's producer David Pugh to tell SOLT's website, “We are fully supportive of Richard, and if anybody’s mobile phone rings we shall tell them to f*** off out of the theatre!”
The audience clearly supported him too: he received a standing ovation for his words."
When an audience member's mobile phone went off for the third time in the matinee of Heroes at Wyndham's on Saturday (19th November), actor Richard Griffiths, in the middle of a long speech towards the end of the play, lost his temper and asked if it was going to ring again or if he could finish the play.
"ThereÂ’s 750 people sitting in here, and if I was them IÂ’d sue you for spoiling their afternoon," he said. "In fact, why donÂ’t you leave the theatre now? F*** off!"
Another mobile had rung twice in the previous night's performance, which led the play's producer David Pugh to tell SOLT's website, “We are fully supportive of Richard, and if anybody’s mobile phone rings we shall tell them to f*** off out of the theatre!”
The audience clearly supported him too: he received a standing ovation for his words."
Re: Uncle Vernon Gets Stroppy.
Wed, 30 Nov 2005, 11:56 amHaving had the experience only a week ago when in one scene with my leading lady an audience member's mobile phone started to go off, I felt the same way. These people do not understand how rude and inconsiderate this is, so verbal abuse and humiliation might be the only way - aside from frisking the bastards when then come in.
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