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Post by longinthetooth on Mar 20, 2019 21:20:55 GMT
When you cease worrying about whether you'll miss the last train, and start working out what time to leave to catch an earlier one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 0:21:20 GMT
On a day trip from Birmingham to London thinking ‘I am sure that I locked the front door and put the burglar alarm on before I left... but I had best pop back just in case’...this actually happened in 2012 at the Vaudeville during the excruciating Uncle Vanya,but in a shameful show of cowardice I was afraid of leaving early in case Ken Stott stopped the show,pointed me out and embarrassed me publicly for my negativity and then confiscated my mobile phone as a lesson to others.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 21, 2019 12:52:13 GMT
...I'd rather be at Hamilton.
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Post by harrietcraig on Mar 21, 2019 13:27:45 GMT
I often pass the time by composing an email message in my head to a friend who is not at the performance, describing in detail how awful it is. By the end of the performance, the message has usually gone through several drafts, until I have arrived at exactly what I want to say, so that when I get home I can just sit down at my computer and dash it off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 13:53:22 GMT
I often pass the time by composing an email message in my head to a friend who is not at the performance, describing in detail how awful it is. By the end of the performance, the message has usually gone through several drafts, until I have arrived at exactly what I want to say, so that when I get home I can just sit down at my computer and dash it off. I often amuse myself with 'witty' comments I could write in a review if I were to say EXACTLY what I think of it. Example this week 'needs a good kick up the arse' was probably not a great professional review but an accurate summary of one performance. Another one is contemplating how attractive an actor/director/stagehand is and lamenting their presence in the current car crash before you, then wandering to a far better use of those two hours in your mind...ahem. |
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Post by duncan on Mar 21, 2019 14:30:26 GMT
Cast counting - how many people are actually in this nonsense.
Work - I know if I start thinking about work then the show aint capturing my attention.
Set design - if I notice the set its only because whats going on in front of it is awful.
What would he/she look like in a hat? - would the leading lady suit a bobble or a sombrero and the leading man surely would look fetching in either a fedora or a pork pie.
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Post by dippy on Mar 21, 2019 16:07:00 GMT
I'm another counter and like Duncan cast counting is the most interesting thing to count. Mainly because they are constantly on the move and the numbers of them on stage change (of course I'm talking about musicals with large casts, very rarely watch plays which tend to have smaller casts). If something has a small cast then it's not worth counting them as you can see how many people are on stage without actually having to count. In those cases I'll count other things, wonder why I'm not watching something else and wish time would speed up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 18:17:30 GMT
When I fall asleep.
Might as well do something productive.
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Post by catcat100 on Mar 22, 2019 23:30:28 GMT
So with a very bare stage and only a three hander with one obvious hottest actor.
I was left trying to work out what remix of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence was playing in the background of the last scene and therefore when that last scene was probably set.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 25, 2019 12:13:07 GMT
So with a very bare stage and only a three hander with one obvious hottest actor. I was left trying to work out what remix of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence was playing in the background of the last scene and therefore when that last scene was probably set. Which is fitting I guess, Pinter luuuuuurved his silences. |
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Mar 27, 2019 22:30:02 GMT
One of my favourite activities if I'm at a particularly bad show which is also selling poorly is to count the number of people in the audience.
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Post by n1david on Mar 27, 2019 22:54:50 GMT
One of my favourite activities if I'm at a particularly bad show which is also selling poorly is to count the number of people in the audience. Problem is, once you've got up to 20, what do you do for the rest of the show? (Or, in the case of one Fringe show, I didn't need my second hand to count the audience members on my fingers...) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 8:25:25 GMT
No-one claps at the end
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 3, 2019 7:44:40 GMT
You decide to stay for the second half but you need wine
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 7:45:47 GMT
There have been reports that Theresa May locked in Cabinet members without their phones while she wrote her speech last night, so they couldn't leak it....but gave them wine. Put me in mind of a bad production or two I've seen.
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Post by mistressjojo on Apr 16, 2019 3:53:34 GMT
When the stage goes to black and most of the audience aren't sure if it's finished or just interval.
(It was just the interval. Mosquitoes. Probably should have been the end. :/ )
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Post by richey on Apr 16, 2019 7:08:26 GMT
I spent a performance of Hair at Manchester Palace last week thinking about what else I'd seen on the same stage and how their sets had filled the spaces.
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