“When people are just chatting in the audience, that's when I want to respond... sound carries well in that space but people think we can't hear them.”
Agnes O’Casey is talking about the idiosyncrasies of the @sohoplace stage acoustics. Her and her fellow cast members in The Spy Who Came From the Cold perform mic-less in the space and have to project their voices, which you’d expect would lead to hushed attention from audiences. Not so: “I regret this, but once a couple were chatting while I was saying a line, and I just said it right at them in the hope that they would stop. I just wanted to subtly be like, ‘by the way, I can hear you.’
