Have You Ever Walked Out Of A Theatre Performance

[Canary42]

I can't remember ever walking out of a film halfway through (except on one occasion when the projector broke down and they couldn't restart it), but I've lost count of the number of times I've not re-entered after the interval at a play or other performance in a theatre (including one ballet).

[andy-hughes]

I have never seen Amy theatre production that I found sufficiently uninteresting to leave before the end.

The cinema, maybe a couple of times - the last two were the Bladerunner update, and Moulin Rouge.

[Canary42]

Lucky you

[andy-hughes]

Maybe I'm easy to please, or choose my plays carefully, or a combination of the two.

[rockyracoon]

Don Quixote. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

[Toorak]

Not a theatre performance but we left an operatic compilation at the Sydney opera house, partly because it was boring but more so because we were totally jetlagged.

[Buenchico]

There have been a few performances that I probably should have walked out of but didn't.

For example, there was a play at Sheffield's Crucible theatre, dealing with complex lesbian issues that I couldn't really make head nor tail of. One of the lead performers seemed to spend quite a lot of the time, totally naked, 'pleasuring herself' with a rolled up magazine. (I wasn't particularly offended; I just couldn't understand wy she was doing it!).

Several people left during the first act, with at least two thirds of the audience not returning after the interval. By the end of the play there were just a a tiny handful of people left (including me), all of whom appeared to be equally baffled by the whole thing.

I can't remember whether or not I walked out of Roger de Courcey's act at Butlin's Southcoast World in Bognor Regis but I know that I definitely should have done. He was totally pished and spent the whole of his 'act' doing nothing more than ranting aggressively about people at the BBC who he thought had ruined his career, with not the slightrst hint of humour.

Another time that I really ought to have left a theatre, but didn't, was a performance by a professional orchestra in Adalaide. I've heard better school orchestras!

Lastly, it was only good manners that kept me (and several hundred more people) in our seats during a coference plenary session, also in Adelaide. We'd all failed to notice that the two-hour lecture, which we sat through and politely applauded at the end, was going to be given in Japanese!

[Maydup]

LOL Chris!

I have left at the interval several times, but I was generally there for work and I tend to think of it as being because I've tired and not enjoyed which is better than not trying at all.

I couldnt take more than the first half of Grease grrr! or the Michael Jackson Tribute Musical, nor on the flip side could I get through The Duchess of Malfi, or Benjamin Britten's War Requim, or Shakespeare's Henrys.

[Maydup]

* I've tried not tired, but I probably was tired too!

[fourteen85]

I walked out of Last Tango in Paris in early 70's