Went to the local theatre this week and something struck me, it was the guy on the door who said "Ticket first, you swine!", but I digress. Anyway, I was watching a perfectly good play but it was difficult to hear above the 'coughing chorus' going on.
Rule of the Badger when going to the theatre: Take some bleeding throat sweets!!!
I always carry mints and when it's the West End or Stratford, Locketts, as I believe there is an unofficial charter between actors and audience.
They as a company promise to give the best performance they can, while we as an audience promise to give them silence, unless it's a comedy, and applause when required.
I don't think it's too much to ask, for them and ourselves. Once I asked a man in front of me if he wouldn't mind refraining from tapping & waving his programme about as it was constantly in my eye line. It was a matinee and a sparsely populated one at that, but instead of just putting it down, he replied: "What, this is bothering you?" like I was asking him to stop breathing.
Instead of punching him (my first instinct, I'm very passionate about theatre AND manners) I glowered at him & said "YES!"
Later on I realised that what I should have said was "Exactly WHY do you need to do that anyway?"
It is a good thing guns are banned in this country, because several people would be shot in the theatres and cinemas would see more bloodbaths off-screen than on!
Got to go, I'm off to the cinema. Now then, where did I put my Walther PPK and silencer....?
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