In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to debate the current standards of audience behaviour.
As one stunned theatre goer noted recently, “OK now I’ve seen it all!! I was at Anything Goes on a Saturday… A man in row H of the stalls had a tiny portable television, it was ON – (he did have headphones!!) and he was watching the rugby!!!!”