Who else but New York would be SO crass?
Apparently Northern California. Wow.
An email from the ART:
Last Thursday there was a major disruption of the performance along with destruction of property at a performance of Invincible Summer, which is currently running at Zero Arrow Theatre.
A group from a high school visiting from Northern California stormed the stage. Not only did over 80 people walk out of the performance, but they poured water all over Mike Daisey's original show outline.
READ Mike Daisey's account on the ARTblog: "A Night to Remember"
"I’m still dealing with all the ramifications, but here’s what it felt like from my end: I am performing the show to a packed house, when suddenly the lights start coming up in the house as a flood of people start walking down the aisles-they looked like a flock of birds who’d been startled, the way they all moved so quickly, and at the same moment…it was shocking, to see them surging down the aisles. The show halted as they fled, and at this moment a member of their group strode up to the table, stood looking down on me and poured water all over the outline, drenching everything in a kind of anti-baptism."
Watch a video of the disrupted performance here. (NSFW due to language)
I think the performer was amazingly composed, given the circumstances.
An email from the ART:
Last Thursday there was a major disruption of the performance along with destruction of property at a performance of Invincible Summer, which is currently running at Zero Arrow Theatre.
A group from a high school visiting from Northern California stormed the stage. Not only did over 80 people walk out of the performance, but they poured water all over Mike Daisey's original show outline.
READ Mike Daisey's account on the ARTblog: "A Night to Remember"
"I’m still dealing with all the ramifications, but here’s what it felt like from my end: I am performing the show to a packed house, when suddenly the lights start coming up in the house as a flood of people start walking down the aisles-they looked like a flock of birds who’d been startled, the way they all moved so quickly, and at the same moment…it was shocking, to see them surging down the aisles. The show halted as they fled, and at this moment a member of their group strode up to the table, stood looking down on me and poured water all over the outline, drenching everything in a kind of anti-baptism."
Watch a video of the disrupted performance here. (NSFW due to language)
I think the performer was amazingly composed, given the circumstances.