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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 18, 2016 15:24:28 GMT
I wish all theatres sold their snacks in fabric bags with string fasteners.
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Post by Jon on Apr 18, 2016 15:30:49 GMT
I've been at a production where there was a far too young child there and the excuse the parents gave was they bought the tickets through travelzoo which didn't mention the minimum age requirement. Don't people do research before going to a show? That smacks of laziness, surely you would check first |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 19, 2016 6:16:14 GMT
If the theatres cared they'd go back to selling boxes of chocs and not noisy packets, they'd not sell shake-able tubs of crisps and nuts and not put clanky ice in drinks. "Miss, I'd like a lukewarm G&T and a box of Milk Tray please. Sorry I've only got a ten shilling note" |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 7:18:17 GMT
If the theatres cared they'd go back to selling boxes of chocs and not noisy packets, they'd not sell shake-able tubs of crisps and nuts and not put clanky ice in drinks. "Miss, I'd like a lukewarm G&T and a box of Milk Tray please. Sorry I've only got a ten shilling note" 1) No theatre bar anywhere in this country can serve a G&T properly and only a barbarian would drink it out of a plastic glass 2) The noise of ice rattling around in plastic can be REALLY loud! I've not been able to hear the actors because someone rows away from me was sloshing some around. There would be no need for all this complaining and fantasising about draconian rules if people had a bit of consideration and awareness of the fact that they are in shared public space 3) I was given a comedy box of Black Magic recently and it was epic! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 19, 2016 12:23:55 GMT
"Miss, I'd like a lukewarm G&T and a box of Milk Tray please. Sorry I've only got a ten shilling note" 1) No theatre bar anywhere in this country can serve a G&T properly and only a barbarian would drink it out of a plastic glass 2) The noise of ice rattling around in plastic can be REALLY loud! I've not been able to hear the actors because someone rows away from me was sloshing some around. There would be no need for all this complaining and fantasising about draconian rules if people had a bit of consideration and awareness of the fact that they are in shared public space 3) I was given a comedy box of Black Magic recently and it was epic!I've been saying this for ages. They leave Thorntons Continental (which used to be great back in the day but went super sweet and sickly) standing. Re your preferred receptacle for G&T I'd venture that ice would be even more clanky in a glass than it is in plastic. Although on a positive note if you throw a real glass at an actor there's a reasonable chance of doing some proper damage. I find with plastic they just plop into the pit. Disappointing! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 14:15:35 GMT
3) I was given a comedy box of Black Magic recently and it was epic!I've been saying this for ages. They leave Thorntons Continental (which used to be great back in the day but went super sweet and sickly) standing. I still maintain that the best chocolate in the world comes from Belgium. Last time I went there I came back with as much chocolate as I could carry. Stuff half a brick in it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 6:02:13 GMT
I've been saying this for ages. They leave Thorntons Continental (which used to be great back in the day but went super sweet and sickly) standing. I still maintain that the best chocolate in the world comes from Belgium. Last time I went there I came back with as much chocolate as I could carry. I'm a Hotel Chocolate convert. There is one at both Victoria and London Bridge Stations which I visit if I have to wait for my train. Lovely chocolate but bad for my bank account and my weight, so almost relieved when I have to rush for the train and don't have time to browse! Man cannot live by chocolate alone, but this woman often gives it a good try. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 8:31:54 GMT
I still maintain that the best chocolate in the world comes from Belgium. Last time I went there I came back with as much chocolate as I could carry. I'm a Hotel Chocolate convert. There is one at both Victoria and London Bridge Stations which I visit if I have to wait for my train. Lovely chocolate but bad for my bank account and my weight, so almost relieved when I have to rush for the train and don't have time to browse! I'm in HC's Chocolate Tasting Club so I get a box every month. I have one right now. Three quarters of one, anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 8:34:43 GMT
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Post by DuchessConstance on Apr 25, 2016 8:57:04 GMT
To be fair, £63.50 is like two boxes. Weak effort. |
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Post by horton on Apr 25, 2016 9:12:25 GMT
Back to topic...
I think it is naive to expect better standards of behaviour than can be found elsewhere in the country. Manners are so appalling and selfishness so rife that it would be a miracle if it were not to be found in a theatre auditorium, too.
The thing I find most repellent is the way people are so completely unapologetic about their selfish lack of consideration for others. It's their right to do whatever they please, it would seem.
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Post by andromedadench on Apr 25, 2016 15:27:37 GMT
I wish all theatres sold their snacks in fabric bags with string fasteners. I'd like some kind of lids for people to put on their cups of beer or wine as not everyone enjoys the smell.  More on topic: I do realise I don't get to see half as much theatre (in the UK) as most people here, but for what it's worth, I've never witnessed any memorably bad behaviour. Quite the opposite, I've had some really heart-warming experiences with complete strangers showing kindness and understanding when I had to leave in the middle of a show due to a panic attack (an usher sat down with me in the hall and engaged me in solving a crossword puzzle with him to distract me from panicking and the lady who had been seated next to me brought me my bag and jacket after the show), and another time I got a hug and a chocolate from another complete stranger in the audience for letting her husband, a fellow panic disorder sufferer, have my aisle seat (I couldn't let him sit on the stairs as he was much older than me and looked mortified). |
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 26, 2016 0:50:19 GMT
I don't think "PC" has anything to do with it (apart from my distaste for the term and what it's morphed into). More like myopia and entitlement.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 8:31:23 GMT
"Politically correct" just means "don't be an asshole". People aren't more scared of offending people than at any other point in history, they're just more ready to speak out against asshole behaviour and more interested in basic empathy. And don't get me started on the popular misunderstanding of what a trigger warning constitutes; let's just say that anyone who believes a student taking control of their own learning is demanding to be mollycoddled is a close-minded buffoon who should take time out to understand what they're talking about before stating an opinion on it.
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Post by RedRose on Apr 26, 2016 8:58:31 GMT
I visited my first Swedish theatre at Stockholm two weeks ago, I was a bit concerned as there was no ushers to be seen in the auditorium but I have never witnessed a better behaving audience as that! Although they sold a lot of noisemaking snacks there, I didn't notice anybody eating them during the play and did't notice anybody consuming any drinks in the auditorium (only outsite before the play and in the interval -don't know if it's forbidden to take them in or not). People coming quite late in were truthly apologetic about their rude behaviour of coming late and sitting in the middle of the row. People sitting at the ailes waiting long at the side before they sat down. Mobiles were switched off in time and no mobile did go off at all during the performance.
Althought it took some people a long time to get out of their seats no one was pushing or climbing over seats. People noticing they were a bit slow and others wanted to pass hurried to move out of the way. The whole audience seemed to be engaged and very interested in the play and gave a good applause and didn't rush out before the end of the curtain call (three bows instead of the regular two in Britain). The actors enjoyed the particularly great audience on that evening as I did myself. My friend I went with went also the evening before. She is no regular theatregoer, she also didn't notice any bad bevaviour the day before, only that the audience seemed partly a bit bored and not that interested.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 26, 2016 11:32:53 GMT
Let's all move to Sweden!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 26, 2016 12:13:31 GMT
Let's all move to Sweden! Don't worry, BB, after that run of Cher puns on the other thread, the whip-round for your ticket already almost has you there... Awww you'd miss me if I went to Sweden!  |
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Post by benjiwicked on Apr 26, 2016 13:42:56 GMT
You probably find ushers come across some form of annoying behaviour during most performances. It's such a shame when people ruin it for others...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 26, 2016 14:40:52 GMT
Lol cheeky
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Post by Coated on Apr 26, 2016 22:19:36 GMT
All I can say is Wigmore Hall. They will tell you to suppress coughing, sometimes in a jokey fashion but always with the implicit "we'd rather you choke soundlessly to death than interrupt our performance". Reminder to switch off mobiles again after the intermission and a well trained crowd who will take on anyone attempting to make unauthorised noises.
The look of sheer panic on an audience member's face when they have an itchy throat is priceless.
My favourite place in London.
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