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Posted by DougieJ on 25 November 2009 - 3:10pm.
Ian Hart takes the method thing a wee bit far in his portrayal of anguished pain, by the looks of it:
Mr Earley said: “I thought he was going to jump down but John Simm put his arm up to stop him. Then he just ran off the side of the stage. He came back out and ran at me. I’d sat back down by then and he was screaming and shouting, incoherent with rage.
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very strange
"Hart, who says that he does not enjoy the relationship between performer and audience, could now face police action!" presumably aprt from the bit where he gets a share of the money the audiences pay to see him.
Good story, this
and I can't wait to see how it pans out. It's intriguing that the chap on the receiving end claims not to have said a word.
I'd like to see more performers do that...
I was listening to a Frankie Boyle podcast and he has a right go at someone in the audience filming him with a mobile!
Sorry to go off at a slight tangent, but reading the article that you linked to, did I really see the words "Abi Titmuss to play Lady MacBeth"?
Yep.
Fully clothed, too.
retroman
did you read the piece hart seemingly attacked an audience member who was just watching the play and who Hart just happened to think was walking not the same thing at all.
He attacked an audient just for walking out??
Sorry that should have been Hart thought
the audience member had been "talking" not "walking" the guy Hart attacked claims he wasn't.
Walking out, talking, using mobiles...
they all deserve a good slap!
Sorry Chris, I was probably a bit distracted by the Abi Titmuss does Lady MacBeth article in your link.
I don't want to labour the point
but the guy whom Ian Hart abused claims he wasn't TALKING this is the heart of the story. I personally think a pithy remark is best way forward for the crimes you list in this case there seems to have been no offence to chastise.
I see what you mean
and of course I think it is bad if he picked on an innocent member of the audience.
However I do get fed up with going to gigs and shows where I wonder why some people are actually there - the chat, the lack of respect to the performer. I was a musician for years and have been going to gigs since the early 80's and I really do believe there has been a marked increase of this strange audience behaviour.
Is it the rise of corporate hospitality, or a general lack of concentration? I'm not sure but if I get pissed off being in the audience then I can certainly understand the actor/musician/performer getting slightly fed up too.
I was at a Seasick Steve show at the Brixton Academy a couple of weeks ago - and he can sure belt out a huge vocal and make some amazing noise from a one-stringed plank of wood - but as soon as he got the banjo out - or god forbid - let his son play a couple of quiet acoustic songs, all you could hear was people talking!
Just a luvvie
Taking it all a bit too seriously.
Viz had a wonderful Luvvie Darling strip a while back which summed up this sort of thing rather wonderfully. Luvvie was, of course, working as a children's party entertainer at the time..