I saw the play a few weeks back and met Ian Hart afterwards and he was such a lovely guy, chatting happily about John Lennon to me for ages. I was shocked to read this news and just cant see him reacting like that. Maybe the story has been exagerrated somewhat? I hope so cos there is no excuse for an actor of his calibre and experience to act in such a way, no matter how OOC it is...
I met Ian after the play, too, and he was lovely - very relaxed and chatty, checked he'd "done" everybody before moving off. Really sweet, so I was very surprised to read this too.
Presumably someone near the unfortunate attackee had been talking or texting, but I agree that perhaps we've only seen a hyped-up report of what happened.
Mind you, I went to a concert recently, and I was totally gobsmacked at the way people kept wandering out to buy drinks. Why pay all that money to go to an event and then not bother watching it?
Personally I think everyone in a theatre or cinema audience who chats for more than a few seconds or above the softest whisper should be taken out and shot thrown out on to the street. I'm paying to hear the actors, not the audience. People try to tell me the Elizabethans did it; they also had disgusting standards of personal hygiene.
If you read the article though it seems the audience member he lunged at wasn't talking (at least according to other people in the theater). It seems he attacked the wrong person which makes the whole thing worse.
Although since I wasn't there I am not going to judge. I am sure it can be very stressful to be up there performing and to hear people talking in the audience. I don't think Hart should have reacted that way but sometimes we all have trouble controlling our emotions. He is only human. And at least it doesn't sound like he physically attacked the audience member.
On a related note, I went to see Phantom of the Opera in theatre, and I really hated the fact that people apparently couldn't bear to go a couple of hours without eating something, so there was the sounds of potato crisps and the whole area in the audience around me was filled up with the smell of onion&chives crisps...
I read about this incident the other day. What's kind of freaked me out a little bit is I went to see it for the second time on the Saturday, so 2 nights before this happened! I'm just so glad I wasn't there; regardless of the circumstances, I would not have wanted to witness that and doubt I could have enjoyed the rest of the performance
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Presumably someone near the unfortunate attackee had been talking or texting, but I agree that perhaps we've only seen a hyped-up report of what happened.
Mind you, I went to a concert recently, and I was totally gobsmacked at the way people kept wandering out to buy drinks. Why pay all that money to go to an event and then not bother watching it?
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I suppose two wrongs don't make a right, but I still don't feel sorry for this particular audience member.
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Although since I wasn't there I am not going to judge. I am sure it can be very stressful to be up there performing and to hear people talking in the audience. I don't think Hart should have reacted that way but sometimes we all have trouble controlling our emotions. He is only human. And at least it doesn't sound like he physically attacked the audience member.
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