Quiet please…

In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to debate the current standards of audience behaviour. Are traditional boundaries between the stage and the stands dissolving?
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In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to debate the current standards of audience behaviour.

As one stunned theatre goer noted recently, “OK now I’ve seen it all!! I was at Anything Goes on a Saturday… A man in row H of the stalls had a tiny portable television, it was ON – (he did have headphones!!) and he was watching the rugby!!!!”

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Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
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Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy is a theatre director, actor trainer, dramaturg and writer.