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Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles

Sat, 5 June 2004, 03:24 am
Brenthoven11 posts in thread
A quick thought to SM's and the like.

Before the show, you might have a recording like:
"Good evening Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonights performance of *insert play title/insult to audience here*. Please turn off all mobile phone and equipment as they interrupt our technical equipment."

Or something like that. What annoys me more is after this has been said, a good 20 minutes into the first act, someone's phone goes off.
Instead of throwing boiling apple juice at them...I suggest a method of subconscious phsycology.

During the message, which is pre-recorded (usually), you purposefully insert the sound of a mobile messing with sound equipment. Eg. the sound your radio makes before your phoneis about ring.
"ditdaditdaditdaditdaaaaaaaaaaaa"

Don't make anything of the noise in the recording. Just screw with the audiences minds. It's more fun.

(a quick thought: even with "no flash photography", you could get the actors to come out with high-beam strobes and blind the audience. Hey. It gets the message across.)

This has been a random thought brought to you by the letter B.

Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles

Tue, 8 June 2004, 10:53 am
Walter Plinge
Really the answer is simple!

why don' t we just encourage other audience members to feel free to beat the living crap out of the person whose phone rings and then shove it up their arse. People would learn quick!

Or for a gentler approach , like the sydney opera house, have a blocker to mobile phone coverage so calls cannot be made or recieved while in the building.

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