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Post by marob on Jul 20, 2024 23:44:33 GMT
You’re all joking about it, but didn’t the Hope Mill production of Hair actually have a ‘clothing optional’ performance when it was on in London?
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Post by chadexx on Jul 21, 2024 6:08:41 GMT
If you have booked for the front row for RED SPEEDOS at the Orange Tree it might be best to wear shorts as there is considerable splash from the frenetic activity in the swimming pool! But worth every drop as the play ~ and the actors are in fine form....
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 21, 2024 8:04:24 GMT
I saw Hello Dolly! on Tuesday night and saw two guys wearing shorts. Not in their sunday clothes ? 🤣 |
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Post by parsley1 on Jul 21, 2024 12:19:18 GMT
I do feel this thread is a bit backwards
People wear what they like to the theatre opera etc
You are paying to attend
Wear what you like
It’s 2024 not Colonial Britain
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 21, 2024 16:06:54 GMT
This is very close to saying "I've paid for my tickets, I'll behave how I like" and we all know how that ends up... You pay for the tickets, you wear what you like, I've never got this obsession with dressing up for the theatre, tracksuit bottoms and t-shirt every time for me, rather be comfortable if I'm sitting for three hours. It really isn't. I'm going to be sitting for three hours in the dark in silence, I don't see how it makes a difference if I'm wearing shorts, tracksuit bottoms or a three piece suit while I'm there, what on Earth does that have to do with behaviour? It's exactly this kind of elitist attitude that puts people off the theatre. |
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Post by Talisman on Jul 21, 2024 16:21:33 GMT
This is very close to saying "I've paid for my tickets, I'll behave how I like" and we all know how that ends up... It really isn't. I'm going to be sitting for three hours in the dark in silence, I don't see how it makes a difference if I'm wearing shorts, tracksuit bottoms or a three piece suit while I'm there, what on Earth does that have to do with behaviour? It's exactly this kind of elitist attitude that puts people off the theatre. Agreed We all know where this attitude leads |
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Post by Jan on Jul 21, 2024 17:05:31 GMT
I do feel this thread is a bit backwards People wear what they like to the theatre opera etc You are paying to attend Wear what you like It’s 2024 not Colonial Britain Shorts were very popular in colonial Britain. Pith helmets too. Why do you think The fact Britain was a colonial power Had any impact at all On what people wore at the theatre Did theatregoers in Vienna wear shorts Because Austria Was not A Colonial Power |
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Post by Jane Parfitt on Jul 21, 2024 18:02:02 GMT
Not sure how you both have taken my comment completely the wrong way but hey ho 😂 It really isn't. I'm going to be sitting for three hours in the dark in silence, I don't see how it makes a difference if I'm wearing shorts, tracksuit bottoms or a three piece suit while I'm there, what on Earth does that have to do with behaviour? It's exactly this kind of elitist attitude that puts people off the theatre. Agreed We all know where this attitude leads |
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Post by david on Jul 21, 2024 20:54:45 GMT
It's comfort all the way for me sat in the theatre so wearing shorts is fine by me. Though despite the warm weather and wearing shorts to a show at the Liverpool Empire this afternoon, someone turned the AC to chill mode and I'm sat in my seat wishing i had worn jeans instead!
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 24, 2024 9:19:39 GMT
Well, y’all seem to think shorts ok. I’m on my own here… Maybe its a generational thing but I'm on the barricade outside the Theatre alongside you! As a gentle(sic)man of indeterminate and considerable age I too detest manspreading. The thought of someone who's already annoyed me repeatedly slapping his calf against mine!!!! I have complained and they always say "Sorry I had no idea - no ones ever mentioned it before" (often that's hard to believe.) The other day I was at Westfield where apparently you are now allowed to bring your family dog(pet?). To see people dragging a reluctant pooch around whilst (some) kids cower and even shriek. The owners are of course mainly unaware of the reactions and when they do notice sometimes offer "Don't worry he won't hurt you." (Which of course, as any psychologist will tell you, completely sets kids at ease with animals.) My point being is that just because you can do something, you really don't have to. The theatre critic being allowed to take up a free seat wearing nothing to absorb his sweat, just shows the lack of curtesy that entitled people frequently display. Part of the job of the audience is to make the performers feel special. Its a win, win. Dress up like you're going somewhere special and its more likely you'll get somewhere special. Dress like you do everyday and it's likely you'll just have another day... "Put on your Sunday clothes and....." PS I had no idea that arguing for this leads to ..... |
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Post by crowblack on Jul 24, 2024 9:45:56 GMT
Is 'wildlife' not an issue? I used to live in South London and on some bus routes you could actually see the fleas pinging around - my brother had to have his North London houseshare flea fumigated twice this spring (not bedbugs, but he's had that to deal with in the past too). When I go to the cinema / theatre I still tuck my trousers into my socks, and came back from a local cinema trip via bus and train two weeks back with a couple of small red ankle bites.
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Post by christya on Jul 24, 2024 10:21:30 GMT
I don't exactly care if someone is wearing shorts - as in, I don't mind them wandering about in them. But if they're sitting next to me in them, their bare leg had better not touch me. Ew.
(I assume by 'shorts' we're talking knee length or longer, bare legs directly on the seat is a bit gross for both the shorts-wearer and the next person)
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Post by mkb on Jul 24, 2024 10:50:58 GMT
At theatres with close-together seating -- the benches at the Menier spring to mind -- I am less concerned about contact with knees, bare or covered, than I am with the actual width of my neighbours.
At The Baker's Wife last week, our row was already occupied when we arrived apart from our "two" seats on the centre aisle. Trying to squeeze into the one-and-a-half spaces remaining was a challenge.
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Post by Talisman on Jul 24, 2024 18:45:09 GMT
I hope showtoones found responses to his post useful. I wonder if he could inform us of his decision after all the advice given.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jul 25, 2024 13:29:09 GMT
I do feel this thread is a bit backwards People wear what they like to the theatre opera etc You are paying to attend Wear what you like It’s 2024 not Colonial Britain Is "colonial" the right word to express the contrast?--I ask because in some quarters getting us to repudiate colonialism has a lot of pressure behind it. |
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jul 25, 2024 13:31:08 GMT
It's comfort all the way for me sat in the theatre so wearing shorts is fine by me. Though despite the warm weather and wearing shorts to a show at the Liverpool Empire this afternoon, someone turned the AC to chill mode and I'm sat in my seat wishing i had worn jeans instead! What if, in warm weather, their sweaty thighs impinge on your nice clean clothes? |
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2024 13:59:37 GMT
Is 'wildlife' not an issue? I used to live in South London and on some bus routes you could actually see the fleas pinging around - my brother had to have his North London houseshare flea fumigated twice this spring (not bedbugs, but he's had that to deal with in the past too). When I go to the cinema / theatre I still tuck my trousers into my socks, and came back from a local cinema trip via bus and train two weeks back with a couple of small red ankle bites. Same in the tube. These days with the teeny shorts worn I do wonder about the fleas which we all know are there, bless ‘em, not to mention the ‘feel’ of the tube seating on bare skin. Ok, let’s not dwell.. |
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Post by amyja89 on Jul 25, 2024 14:07:13 GMT
The times I've worn shorts in the theatre, I've had more people striking up conversations about my tattoos that anything! Highlights include Stevie Nicks, Cher, Esmeralda from Hunchback, Thelma and Louise, Hey Arnold and an Animaniac. 😅
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Post by theatreian on Jul 26, 2024 15:04:47 GMT
I wore shorts 3 times this week to the theatre, shock horror! Moulin Rouge, Hello Dolly and Pet Shop Boys at ROH. Luckily the weather meant I didn't wear them for Starlight Express last night as it certainly isn't a warm venue.
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Post by vdcni on Jul 29, 2024 22:00:47 GMT
The delicate flowers on the thread should probably look away but I wore shorts to Hello Dolly tonight as did quite a few other's!
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Post by kallyloo on Jul 30, 2024 9:24:56 GMT
Roughly knee length shorts, yes, of course, perfectly fine. Athletic, guess which side I’m popping out to greet the seat shorts?
Hell no, but guys are going to do what’s most comfortable.
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Post by Deal J on Jul 30, 2024 11:05:39 GMT
The times I've worn shorts in the theatre, I've had more people striking up conversations about my tattoos that anything! Highlights include Stevie Nicks, Cher, Esmeralda from Hunchback, Thelma and Louise, Hey Arnold and an Animaniac. 😅 Wow, you're lucky to have had all those celebrities approach you! I am, of course, being silly. That sounds like a fabulous array of tattoos - which Animaniac? |
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Post by amyja89 on Jul 30, 2024 11:24:38 GMT
The times I've worn shorts in the theatre, I've had more people striking up conversations about my tattoos that anything! Highlights include Stevie Nicks, Cher, Esmeralda from Hunchback, Thelma and Louise, Hey Arnold and an Animaniac. 😅 Wow, you're lucky to have had all those celebrities approach you! I am, of course, being silly. That sounds like a fabulous array of tattoos - which Animaniac? Yakko! |
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Post by scotty8692 on Jul 31, 2024 11:19:03 GMT
Wow, you're lucky to have had all those celebrities approach you! I am, of course, being silly. That sounds like a fabulous array of tattoos - which Animaniac? Yakko! An Animaniacs tattoo? Sounds totally insaney!  |
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Post by freedomrights on Aug 15, 2024 23:47:40 GMT
I don't see any issue with shorts for any gender unless it is some gala event.
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