Conversation has once more turned to audience behaviour and theatre etiquette after Rosamund Pike spoke out about texting during a performance of Inter Alia.
Pike, after completing her Olivier Award winning performance in the West End play, returned to the stage in order to beseech the audience not to pierce the trust between actor and audience.
The question, then, is whether audience behaviour can be wholly dictated by those onstage, what constitutes disrespect and how do we combat a decreasing capacity for interpersonal empathy in the stalls?
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00:00 | introduction
03:25 | what happened?
14:34 | is there more to it?
25:24 | conclusion
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