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Post by Ade on Apr 19, 2018 22:27:23 GMT
Hear hear. I've been watching Shakespeare since I was a kid and it's wonderful to see a truly diverse audience enjoy an immersive experience. Far removed from the middle England mob. Give me youthful noise and vitality any day. The Bridge Theatre audience were definitely NOT diverse the night we saw it. Glad to hear it was on your visit though. It was incredibly diverse when I saw it too. Probably one of the most diverse audiences I have seen.
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Post by asfound on Apr 23, 2018 10:41:38 GMT
Hear hear. I've been watching Shakespeare since I was a kid and it's wonderful to see a truly diverse audience enjoy an immersive experience. Far removed from the middle England mob. Give me youthful noise and vitality any day. It was the usual middle-aged Hampstead/Kent sprinkled with a few Japanese tourists mob when I saw it, not sure what your definition of "truly diverse" is.
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Post by ceebee on Apr 24, 2018 12:43:07 GMT
Truly diverse as in representing many (including Kent and Hampstead). Jeez, some people aren't happy unless they're beefing about something. It's theatre - just 'king enjoy it!
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Post by Jan on Apr 24, 2018 13:19:49 GMT
I couldn't care less how diverse an audience is - obviously it's best not to have school parties there because they make lots of noise and laugh when there's kissing on stage, but my impression of this one was the promenaders looked much like the Globe groundling audience and the seated folk looked like the NT audience and so it was diverse in terms of age but not notably by ethnicity.
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Post by Peach on Apr 24, 2018 19:39:14 GMT
I worked at the Bridge for a while during this show and saw thousands of its audience members (and probably lots of you lot). There was an extremely diverse age range and ethnic mix, although if you came to a weekday or Sunday matinee you probably wouldn't see that so much.
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Post by nash16 on Apr 25, 2018 1:16:57 GMT
I worked at the Bridge for a while during this show and saw thousands of its audience members (and probably lots of you lot). There was an extremely diverse age range and ethnic mix, although if you came to a weekday or Sunday matinee you probably wouldn't see that so much. So you're saying the Bridge is extremely diverse, but only on Saturdays?
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Post by Peach on Apr 25, 2018 6:19:52 GMT
No, I'm saying that matinees tended to attract a less diverse audience. But that's the case in most theatres I've worked in.
Weekday evenings especially were a really broad mix because it was a fairly short show and people would come from work.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 7:49:33 GMT
No, I'm saying that matinees tended to attract a less diverse audience. But that's the case in most theatres I've worked in. Weekday evenings especially were a really broad mix because it was a fairly short show and people would come from work. Agree- most theatres I've worked in the same. Weekday matinees are generally dominated by the older retired crowd, a simple fact of logistics usually. With the exception of school group shows, and things on during 'holiday' periods. Even then it's the least diverse audience for most theatres.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 10:48:51 GMT
Oh I love a matinee. I always feel so young.
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Post by Snciole on Apr 25, 2018 17:09:00 GMT
I went to a few weekday matinees when recovery from surgery and with the exception of the actual students who had also managed to blag cheap tickets it tends to be the elderly and tourists.
With the exception of Hamilton there is a rarely any play that I would take the day off work for.
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