29 Mar 2007
Oliver Twist
Posted by: Squareface In: Arts| Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
TNT has very skilled performers. (The above are actresses acting as boys)
I just came back from Shanghai’s Dramatic Arts Theatre, after watching a rather different version of Oliver Twist.
What I want to blog about is not on the play, though. It’s about the audience.
Many people strolled in late; many did not switch their phone to a tactful mode even after getting several glances from the other members of the audience, making us listen to their long beeping message tone more than once; there was a kid who kept asking his mother questions and received a warning from the usheree before leaving on their own accord; and something I don’t understand is that many people had to go to the bathroom in the midst of the play. Apparently many amongst the audience had urine aplenty. About 10 people from the row behind us left for the bathroom, of which 8 made us aware of it by rubbing their asses against our heads.
