September 21, 2004
Spacey attacks rude theatregoers
Actor Kevin Spacey has attacked audiences who allow their mobile phones to ring during a theatre performance, saying visitors should learn to behave, reports the BBC.
"As artistic director of London's Old Vic Theater he now personally issues a warning to his audiences to switch off their phones and not to eat sweets.
He told BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme that people that refused "shouldn't come" to the theatre.
He said people should respect the code of behaviour expected of theatregoers.
"I've been to performances when they've gone off - they just had a hilariously reported incident at the National - at Alan Bennett's History Boys - where the actor asked the audience member whose phone had gone off six times to leave the theatre," he told Front Row. "
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