Rosamund Pike confronted an audience member during a performance of Inter Alia at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End on Saturday. The actor, 47, who won an Olivier award for her role as a crown court judge in the show, blasted an audience member for texting during the climax of the play.
How very dare they not pay attention!
During the curtain call, Pike pointed out how unacceptable it is for audiences to use their phones, especially during pivotal moments.
If you were any good in the play, maybe they wouldn't?
A member of the audience said after the performance that Pike seemed “genuinely upset”, the Times reported.
Ah, bless...
Pike is not the first thespian to criticise audience behaviour in British theatres. Just weeks ago, Cynthia Erivo brought her performance of Dracula to a standstill after noticing an audience member filming on a mobile phone.
Rather like being at school, they punish the entire audience because one member is acting up.
Don't tell 'em, Pike!
ReplyDeleteI thought that the fourth wall was not to be crossed in a serious play, only in pantomime. For an actor or actress to do so is extremely unprofessional. I might have booed and left the auditorium if I had been in the audience.
ReplyDeleteTexting is also a form of theatrical commentary. Wilde
ReplyDeleteYes, using ones phone in these circumstances is bad manners, but I'd have thought that Ms Pike would be so caught up and absorbed in the production that she wouldn't have noticed or has time to stop the show, interrupt it and spoil it for the rest of the audience, to gaslight and humiliated said paying spectator.
ReplyDeleteTo be frank, I am fed up with these puffed-up self-important always leftist Luvvies, lecturing and wagging their fingers at us and ramming their latest trendy "cause" in our faces and down our throats.
I seem to remember the wide eyed Benedict Cumberbatch stopping a play to lecture the audience on his sacred cow of the day the then "Syrian refugees". I wonder what his views are, now that we have many of these "refugees" terrorising us in the UK.
My message to Ms Pike, the play must have been utter crap if you were so easily distracted from it. One small mercy, at least she didn't start on about never-ever-having-existed so-called "palestine" and how evil Trump and Zionism are ..