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#LondonCalling: Life in London: Surge of rude theater audiences @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#LondonCalling: Life in London: Surge of rude theater audiences @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/actor-halted-hamlet-soliloquy-after-audience-member-opened-laptop-9ztpql7qz
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Code at UK. I'm John Datser with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the

0:38.2

editorial board of the Wall Street Journal writing political economics in

0:41.0

London and going to the theater as a good Londoner and to the

0:44.7

opera and there is an article that caught my attention immediately is on the front page of

0:50.2

the London Times that is part of the story of attending theater.

0:56.1

Actor Halted Hamlet after audience member opened laptop.

1:00.6

Joe, this is an opportunity for you to tell the worst possible stories of the rudeness of audiences. Is it worse? Is it better? Do you just get used to it in London?

1:10.0

I think it's getting worse. The story we're talking about is the actor Andrew

1:15.0

Scott who's been in various things in film and TV and is also a well-known

1:19.6

West End stage actor here in London apparently was recounting a story from a production of Hamlet.

1:25.0

He was in years ago before the pandemic

1:28.0

where a theater goer at one point pulled out a laptop and was going to do, you know, check emails in the middle of a

1:36.7

Shakespearean soliloquy. So, you know, that is particularly obnoxious, but I think what my experience is a frequent theater goer especially since the pandemic has been that I think that people kind of forgot how to behave in that sort of setting so you constantly have issues with people chatting with each other or

1:54.6

eating noisy snacks like potato chips in the middle of the second act after the

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