They’re at it again. Actors moaning about rotten audiences. In an interview this week, Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar – who later this year will be making his musical theatre debut as Fred Graham in a new production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican – grumbled about the behaviour of theatregoers, calling it “very distracting” to be met in an audience with “one or two people whose faces are lit up” by their phones.
This was the same week the Cush Jumbo, on stage right now at the tiny Donmar Warehouse as Lady Macbeth opposite David Tennant as the bloody thane, revealed that in their show, which requires the audience to wear headphones throughout, those watching had a tendency to rustle their sweet wrappers and fart with impunity on the assumption that nobody can hear. The actors can. Be warned.
