does anyone want me to upload any scenes from my coriolanus audio?
any requests or anything?
Um, I’m fairly certain there shouldn’t BE any Coriolanus audio. They don’t want pictures of the set and I’m…
Wow. I have no words either. As a theatre academic, trained actor and as a theatre board member I am saddened at such an attitude. It shows a lack of respect for your fellow audience members and most importantly for those performing on stage and those who created the performance.
Leaving aside the issue of rudeness for one moment. Theatre is a live experience, that is the point of going to the theatre vs going to the cinema or watching something at home. In the case of Coriolanus that is precisely why tickets are so hard to come by, people are clamoring for the experience of seeing Tom Hiddleston perform live (or in my case Mark Gatiss) you could hear and see him on a recording any time, the point is the expereince.
Yes plays are now often recorded for posterity, by archives or theatre companies and as an academic I am grateful, but they are not a replacement for the real thing.
But I digress a little, what you are suggesting is rude. It’s rude to those on stage, it’s rude to those around you to be recording firstly without their permission, secondly in a way that could disrupt the performance. By saying other people are ‘pissy’ also shows a flagrant disregard for your fellow, respectful audience members.
no one at all around me
neither those in the audience
nor those on stage
get interrupted, disrupted, nor even KNOW im recording audio
They might well find out, however, if it starts circulating the internet. It’s not about being disruptive, it’s about being disrespectful. Actors on stage and the production team behind it all do not want shitty audio recordings getting shared all over. That’s why it isn’t allowed, and I’m sure you’re a very special little flower and all, but you’re still not entitled to break the rules everyone else manages to abide by. When I did my degree dissertation on theatre recordings, I interviewed actors who told me how very strongly they hated people making bootlegs, not because it disturbed them during the performance, but because it meant something substandard was all over the internet afterwards. Whether anyone can tell you’re doing it at the time or not, it does not stop it being disrespectful to all the people involved busting a gut to give you a nice evening of entertainment. And as for the theatre I actually work in, if we found someone recording, we’d have them removed, maybe banned. I wonder if anybody’s tweeted the Donmar a link to your posts yet…