Okay, Theater Audiences: ‘Sit Up And Engage – It’s Not Feeding Time’

Andrew Upton of Sydney Theatre Co. : “The hardest audience burden of all to tolerate is sitting back and waiting to be fed. This sort of blobby ‘tell me a story while I chew my cud’ has left me wondering if seats should be removed from theatres altogether. … Sit up and engage. It’s not feeding time; it’s haranguing, coaxing, wooing time.”