Coping with ringing phones at the theater

Calcutta's Telegraph reports on Actor and director, Swapna Sandhani speaking on audience mobile phones ringing during a performance.

"I had stopped my show, ", at Odeon 2004 when a mobile rang and asked the owner of the phone to leave the auditorium. Other members of the audience also supported me. This is the only way this nuisance can be stopped. I do not know why we, theatre performers, do not protest. Once a person is made to face this embarassment he will remember the experience and mend his ways.

If there are senior artistes on stage, they have the experience to recover from the interruption and carry on. But such breaks hamper the performance of new artistes."

emily | 6:30 PM | News, Buzz |
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