- Actor Stephen Mangan has questioned whether audience members understand that “they’re in the same room” at the theatre.
- Mangan, who is returning to the West End for The Truth , told The Times : “If they pull out a phone and start texting, we’re right there. We can see it. If they lean over and whisper something to their friend, we can hear it.”
- He recounted an experience during a 2009 Broadway play, when someone in the front row put their two feet on the stage.
- His comments come after Rosamund Pike pointed out that someone had been texting during a pivotal scene in her West End play, Inter Alia .
- The issue of disruptive audience behaviour has become a renewed topic of debate, with another recent incident involving the Royal Shakespeare Company asking a woman to leave The Tempest after her baby repeatedly interrupted the production.
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