As people already following this blog will know, I went to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child yesterday and you will get a full report on how great it was tomorrow (careful, spoiler alert), but for tonight, I want to talk about something that actually bugged me on my theatre trip.
Theatre-going has apparently descended to the levels of cinemas. Yesterday the audience was admitted to one of the most anticipated plays ever in a beautiful, old theatre and people still showed up in jeans and chucks. I don't understand that - in our lives we get so little chances to dress up anyway, wouldn't you at least do that when you go to the theatre? I mean, you don't have to wear a prom dress, but make some effort, honestly. Behind me sat people from Iceland, or some country which had a similar-sounding language (I actually don't want to dwell on the fact where they came from or I will be considered racist for saying they were idiots - for the records, they weren't idiots because they came from [Please Insert Country] but because they were simply idiots). They were Harry Potter fans, no doubt, but they had no idea of etiquette, manners or respect. When the seats in front of them were not yet occupied, they parked their chucks and vans on them, which I find outrageous enough in the bus, but in the theatre it is unacceptable. Furthermore, they talked regularly during the show (actually reacting like four-year-olds, sucking air in literally when something exciting happened) and they wore ripped shirts and jeans. Seriously, some effort, please. Also, some people ate terribly loudly during the show, which is annoying enough in the cinema, but in the theatre it's just rude, so I am calling for a theatre revolution where you are not admitted at all, if you turn up like this - or to rephrase Sheldon Cooper's words from the Big Bang Theory "I won't say that all citizens who don't know how to behave in and dress for theatre should be publicly flogged. But, if we made an example of one or two it might give the others incentive to try harder."
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Papagena
8/27/2016 05:54:55 am
Some months ago I went to our local cinema to see a movie. As I entered the building, I saw dozens of elderly people in noble clothes, pearl jewellery around their necks and glasses of champagne in their hands. I was very confused, because this is not what you usually see when you enter a cinema. Then I found out what was going on: A live opera from the met in new york. These old ladies and gentlemen went to the cinema to see an opera - and therefore dressed up as if they visited an opera house. Really cute!
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