Stage actor stopped Hamlet's 'To Be' soliloquy because audience member pulled out laptop!

[thewayne]

In 2017, the actor, Andrew Scott - known as the Hot Priest from the Brit show Fleabag - was performing Hamlet on-stage when someone in the audience pulled out a laptop to send off some emails.

Yeah. Just a little bit not cool.

So Scott stopped performing. The stage director was motioning him to get on with it, Scott was 'fuck it', not gonna do it. Laptop Guy's girlfriend realized what was going on and was finally able to convince the guy to shut it down and the play finally resumed.

Who would take a laptop to a performance of HAMLET?!

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/02/andrew-scott-halted-hamlet-performance-after-theatregoer-opened-laptop

Comments

[bibliofile]

Wtaf. I can see hauling a laptop into a theater (after work) -- but not USING IT.