Will you PLEASE be quiet??!!
Mon, 26 Aug 2002, 09:26 amLeah Maher32 posts in thread
Will you PLEASE be quiet??!!
Mon, 26 Aug 2002, 09:26 amHey kids,
Not wanting to take attention away from the interesting three way romance developing in the "Reviewers in the Missed" thread, an interesting point has been raised way down there in the Reviews forum; what do you do about noisy audience members?
The amazing Mr Kelso in the equally amazing Copenhagen at the Octogon very recently apparently employed the simple break of character and "Would you please be quiet, the rest of the audience is tying to listen." before returning to character and picking up from where he had been so rudely interupted.
Is this the best way to go about it? Or should you just ignore it and hope it goes away? Or send a runner out in the interval to hunt down the culprits and have a quiet word? Or get the cast and crew together in the car park afterwards to make sure these inconsiderate audience members never bother another actor again?
Suggestions? Stories? Annecdotes?
Leah
Not wanting to take attention away from the interesting three way romance developing in the "Reviewers in the Missed" thread, an interesting point has been raised way down there in the Reviews forum; what do you do about noisy audience members?
The amazing Mr Kelso in the equally amazing Copenhagen at the Octogon very recently apparently employed the simple break of character and "Would you please be quiet, the rest of the audience is tying to listen." before returning to character and picking up from where he had been so rudely interupted.
Is this the best way to go about it? Or should you just ignore it and hope it goes away? Or send a runner out in the interval to hunt down the culprits and have a quiet word? Or get the cast and crew together in the car park afterwards to make sure these inconsiderate audience members never bother another actor again?
Suggestions? Stories? Annecdotes?
Leah
Re: copping flak
Wed, 28 Aug 2002, 01:09 pmWalter Plinge
Hi Craig and M'Colleague,
Cheese Stains are very difficult to remove from the fretboard.
But the Dumbleyungians didn't know what they were letting themselves in for when they conducted their mighty food war. They unleashed Milo Kerrigan in tights.
Here is another anecdote concerning talkative audiences from my uni days. We were performing one of the classics to a schools audience. They had obviously been studying this piece recently. One audience member near the front took it upon himself to recite all the lines of one particular character. So whenever the actor went to speak this audience member would begin speaking the lines. Slightly upsetting. The worst kind of prompt one can imagine.
Another story from uni days. At one show in a small venue there came a sound like someone pouring coffee in the audience - there was also talk coming from that section of the audience. For some reason it was quite a loud sound and they were pouring an awful lot of coffee. No-one said anything at the time but there was a lot of bitching and hissing after the show. Later we found out that it wasn't a thermos of coffee being poured but it was a person in a wheelchair going to toilet. So, it's a good job none of the actors did react.
And perhaps in some instances talk in the audience is for a perfectly legitimate reason. And, in SOME cases it is best if the actor does not react or respond.
Though as you say Craig there are times, and given that the actors are in character, when a response to audience behaviour is more than justified. I recently performed in a production of Bouncers where ad-libbed responses to audience behaviour became par for the course.
In the case of Geoff Kelso in Copenhagen, I feel he would have been perfectly justified in addressing the audience in the manner that he did. I saw this recent production of Copenhagen(not the night in question however) and I personally needed all my concentration for it - I'm a bit of a dummy - and any talking amongst the audience would have made it very difficult for me as a fellow audience member to maintain my concentration.
For now "Resistance is Futile!"
Cheers
Kingsley( another Minstrel)
PS: "Play the best song in the world or I'll eat your soul."
Cheese Stains are very difficult to remove from the fretboard.
But the Dumbleyungians didn't know what they were letting themselves in for when they conducted their mighty food war. They unleashed Milo Kerrigan in tights.
Here is another anecdote concerning talkative audiences from my uni days. We were performing one of the classics to a schools audience. They had obviously been studying this piece recently. One audience member near the front took it upon himself to recite all the lines of one particular character. So whenever the actor went to speak this audience member would begin speaking the lines. Slightly upsetting. The worst kind of prompt one can imagine.
Another story from uni days. At one show in a small venue there came a sound like someone pouring coffee in the audience - there was also talk coming from that section of the audience. For some reason it was quite a loud sound and they were pouring an awful lot of coffee. No-one said anything at the time but there was a lot of bitching and hissing after the show. Later we found out that it wasn't a thermos of coffee being poured but it was a person in a wheelchair going to toilet. So, it's a good job none of the actors did react.
And perhaps in some instances talk in the audience is for a perfectly legitimate reason. And, in SOME cases it is best if the actor does not react or respond.
Though as you say Craig there are times, and given that the actors are in character, when a response to audience behaviour is more than justified. I recently performed in a production of Bouncers where ad-libbed responses to audience behaviour became par for the course.
In the case of Geoff Kelso in Copenhagen, I feel he would have been perfectly justified in addressing the audience in the manner that he did. I saw this recent production of Copenhagen(not the night in question however) and I personally needed all my concentration for it - I'm a bit of a dummy - and any talking amongst the audience would have made it very difficult for me as a fellow audience member to maintain my concentration.
For now "Resistance is Futile!"
Cheers
Kingsley( another Minstrel)
PS: "Play the best song in the world or I'll eat your soul."
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