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This happened during a weekend performance at the theater I'm working at right now.
This show is in our upstairs black box theater. Picture a big room, painted black, with moveable risers for theater seats. It's arranged stadium style; the playing area is in the middle with seats on both sides.
At the top of the second act, there is action onstage, but there is also a conversation going on offstage, to the side of one of the risers out of sight of the audience. This is part of the action and is referred to by the actors onstage.
Apparently someone in the audience got up and walked over to where the actors were offstage, and said something to the effect of "Look, you've been talking since the show started again, and you're really disturbing those of us who want to watch the show."
At which point one of the actors pointed out that their conversation was, in fact, part of the show.
The audience member was suitably embarrassed and profusely apologized, and the show continued.
We all appreciated that someone would actually be willing to get up and do something about a "disturbance" instead of just sitting there. But if I were that guy, once I realized my mistake I think I would have just grabbed my stuff and hightailed it out of there!
This show is in our upstairs black box theater. Picture a big room, painted black, with moveable risers for theater seats. It's arranged stadium style; the playing area is in the middle with seats on both sides.
At the top of the second act, there is action onstage, but there is also a conversation going on offstage, to the side of one of the risers out of sight of the audience. This is part of the action and is referred to by the actors onstage.
Apparently someone in the audience got up and walked over to where the actors were offstage, and said something to the effect of "Look, you've been talking since the show started again, and you're really disturbing those of us who want to watch the show."
At which point one of the actors pointed out that their conversation was, in fact, part of the show.
The audience member was suitably embarrassed and profusely apologized, and the show continued.
We all appreciated that someone would actually be willing to get up and do something about a "disturbance" instead of just sitting there. But if I were that guy, once I realized my mistake I think I would have just grabbed my stuff and hightailed it out of there!
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