Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Is.Man Times
New York Times: "I don’t know how Muslims who believe in honor killings usually talk, but I’m pretty sure they don’t say, “That’s what Britney would do.” Yet that’s what the lead actor in the Dutch writer Adelheid Roosen’s “Is.Man,” a play about such murders, said at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Sunday, breaking character and speaking to the audience as he took off the head mike that had been crackling and creating problems."
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I find it interesting that an actor who is involved in such avante garde work is such a diva. Expecially since the stereotypical avante garde actors are all about 'making art.' Trying to create a new play, and an American debut, his actions onstage such as wripping the mic off of his face and storming offstage, is no way to treat a professional audience.
I wish this actor would have meet B.D. Wong, who injured himself onstage and then formally apologized to the audience.
If I were in the audience, the actions of this actor would make me completely uninterested to see him in anything again.
I agree with Rico. The fact is that as an actor, sometimes you have to deal with sound equipment not working and cell phones going off. Life moves on. It is almost always inappropriate for an actor to berate the audience.
I once saw a performance at Yale Rep where the actors came out and yelled at the audience for being rude after the play was finished. It came off as unprofessional.
Wow, it is really surprising to me that someone would do this. Speaking to the audience completely destroys the element of theatre. It's also very rare to hear of an actor throwing a temper tantrum on stage and then leaving in the middle of a performance. If he was sick then he shouldn't have done the show, however from the article it sounds like he just wanted to leave and had nothing to do with being sick. How unprofessional.
The show must go on. It is one of the first things that you learn when your in the theater. That an actor would stop the show and berate the audience is absolutely unheard of and unprofessional. It's bad for the theater as a whole, looking as if it's unwelcoming. Annoying, inappropriate audience members will always be there regardless of how much we tell them to turn of the cell phone and not bring food. Actors should be able to deal with it and expect it.
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