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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2019 8:12:47 GMT
We know what you love in theatre, but what are your pet hates?
Here are mine;
Shows that get their advertised running time wrong.
Going to the Theatre wet, as I was caught in the rain yesterday and was in the Royal Court soaked.
People who leave during the show.
People who get their mobile phones out.
Gender neutral toilets.
Shows late start late, when I ma on time.
Shows that start on time, when I am a couple of minutes late.
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Post by Mark on Dec 20, 2019 8:24:44 GMT
Rustling Sweet Wrappers
Talking during the show
Shows starting late
Long intervals
Shorter shows that push their start time to 8pm so they get out later
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Post by HereForTheatre on Dec 20, 2019 8:34:02 GMT
People laughing at inappropriate/the wrong times.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 20, 2019 8:53:16 GMT
Kinky boots, the item not the show. Rustling leather behind my head annoys me more than it should
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 9:39:58 GMT
'Fans' who laugh too hard and too loud at everything or scream wildly because their favourite cast member is on stage, trying to draw attention to themselves in the audience.
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Post by Deal J on Dec 20, 2019 9:42:39 GMT
Faked corpsing on stage. Awful.
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Post by Dr Tom on Dec 20, 2019 10:01:17 GMT
Shows having two intervals, particularly short shows.
Talking during the overture.
People putting their arm over the shoulders loved one/paid one next to them, blocking the view of the person behind.
Gunshots added where there weren't any in the original text.
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Post by duncan on Dec 20, 2019 10:01:49 GMT
People who are late, theatre isn't the cinema it starts at the scheduled time - be there at the apposite moment or don't come at all.
Scripted ad-libs, they are obvious and not in the slightest amusing.
Talking during the show.
Eating during the show - you are 99% of the time no more than 2 hours from an interval/show end, if you need to eat during the performance then at least unwrap the ducking sweets beforehand.
Singing along during musicals. I've not come to hear your caterwauling.
And a big hand for the people who wait for the lights to go down before moving to an empty seat.
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Post by freckles on Dec 20, 2019 12:13:07 GMT
Bars that stay open during the show so people wander in and out of the auditorium.I don't see why they can't wait until the interval.
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Post by adrianics on Dec 20, 2019 12:23:29 GMT
People with tenuous connections to cast members who will not shut up about it
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Post by dippy on Dec 20, 2019 12:26:26 GMT
Clapping before the song is actually finished, drives me mad, I don't want to hear applause, I want to hear the end of the song. As has already been mentioned, hate people singing along, had that too often recently, very annoying.
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Post by freckles on Dec 20, 2019 12:30:23 GMT
And a big hand for the people who wait for the lights to go down before moving to an empty seat. Sorry - guilty on the odd occasion, I'm afraid. You have to be sure the doors are closed and you're not going to be moved back by latecomers! But I'd only ever move discreetly to a seat I could get into quickly and easily, disturbing a row would be a no-no. |
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Post by freckles on Dec 20, 2019 12:41:54 GMT
Ooh, just thought of another one: "Everybody on your feet!"
In fact, any sort of forced encore that implies the audience has enjoyed the show much more than they have.
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 20, 2019 12:50:47 GMT
Apart from the well documented bad behavior from fellow audience members:
-Queues for the toilets
-Queues at the bar when I just want some water
-No water jug on the bar
-Water jug at the bar but it has lemon in it
-Clapping along
-Joining in a standing ovation then there's another bit of singing so you have to stand there awkwardly (worse if you're front row)
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Post by ruby on Dec 20, 2019 12:55:15 GMT
People who talk during the overture. The lights going down is your cue to shut up.
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 20, 2019 13:56:21 GMT
People who laugh really loudly so that everyone knows they got a reference that probably only 80% of the population would get. And in a similar vein, people who explain what just happened to their partner so everyone around knows they understood it. (You're supposed to be able to get it. It is literally a playwright's job to make sure you do.)
Anything that involves audience participation. I am not the entertainment. No exceptions.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 20, 2019 14:34:36 GMT
People who talk during the overture. The lights going down is your cue to shut up. Or overture set changes mid production that are a mini break but not the interval. Why is that a cue to talk? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 16:47:24 GMT
People who think their opinion, is the only opinion that matters.
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Post by tmesis on Dec 20, 2019 16:56:56 GMT
People with an arse the size of Africa who almost always seem to end up sitting next to me in theatres that have bench style seating like Donmar, Park and especially MCF (where the allocated space is particularly small,) causing considerable discomfort. Obviously my perfectly pert, petite posterior is beyond reproach in this regard.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 20, 2019 18:03:19 GMT
I feel this thread can be summed up in 2 words: other people!
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Post by rockinrobin on Dec 20, 2019 20:11:48 GMT
Queues in the loos.
Phones out.
People who ask me if I could swap seats with them because I'm on my own and they want to sit with their friends (ironically, they usually leave in the interval).
People who are drunk.
Price of wine (on the other hand, this probably prevents me from becoming one of the people who are drunk).
Not a problem in London but where I live theatregoing is still considered a posh thing to do so sometimes people look at my jeans as if they wanted to say "really? we're in a temple of art and you're wearing THIS?".
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Post by lynette on Dec 20, 2019 20:36:00 GMT
All of the above.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2019 23:14:05 GMT
There Lynette I thought you might charm in with old plays that have been adapted “a new version by.”, as I have heard you mention it before.
I agree with you and think that it is both an aberration and vandalism.
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Post by freckles on Dec 21, 2019 17:51:23 GMT
Ushers who tear your ticket carelessly, spoiling it when you want to keep it.
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Post by dippy on Dec 21, 2019 18:08:16 GMT
Ushers who tear your ticket carelessly, spoiling it when you want to keep it. I always fold it really really well along the perforated line in the hope that it will tear properly but even then some of them manage to rip it. |
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Post by hitmewithurbethshot on Dec 21, 2019 18:29:51 GMT
Not necessarily in-theatre behaviour, but actors that’ll take any event as an opportunity to post pictures of themselves. Like this 10 day performer/artists challenge that’s all over Instagram, or when things like Grease Live was aired and you’d see people posting “when I was 4th cover Patty Simcox at a hotel in Corfu”. The most egregious was when Notre Dame was on fire and someone on my performers facebook group posted a video of them singing from Hunchback!
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