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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - KingSpeed 10:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| KIngSpeed, I totally understand. I do. But for everyone who feels as you do, there's someone else who would say that they didn't come to see BP break character and stop the performance. Things can go both ways with this. | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:18 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| KIngSpeed, I totally understand. I do. But for everyone who feels as you do, there's someone else who would say that they didn't come to see BP break character and stop the performance. Things can go both ways with this. Yes -- but in my opinion, if the audience has already been taken out of a performance by a cell phone ringing or a child screaming, the actor(s) might as well stop the show until the disturbance is silenced, and then pick up where they left off or just before the spot where they left off. |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: mikem 12:18 am EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I think that sometimes, the distraction is so distracting that the audience is focused on the distraction as much as what's happening on stage. If a child was screaming throughout Send in the Clowns, at a certain point, I think it would have probably been the central part of my focus rather than Bernadette Peters. I understand why she might want to soldier on through, but I think I would have wanted her to stop as well. I also think it must have affected her performance. It is a really emotional and poignant scene, and it was probably ruined. In the Michael Sheen incident, an audience member says that 5 phones went off in the first 45 minutes of the play. I can see why Sheen would feel like he should say something with that many instances so early in the performance. Each incident was causing the audience to lose more and more focus. |
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