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Maxwell67 -> RE: Ever Walked Out Halfway Thru a Movie? (8/7/2008 8:48:22 PM)
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I walked out halfway through a play once. A bit less actually. Some of the actors were friends of mine in this little independent experimental piece of absolutely horrible masterbatory crap in which Romeo and Juliet meet up with Hamlet and they all fall in love and Hamlet has this huge sexual identity crisis and then the breaker box in the theater tripped and all the stage lights went out.. the energency lights worked though. So instead of either going on with the show sans lighting or pausing the production and letting theaudience go out in the lobby while they fix the problem, like a sane director would do, this genius of the theater tells the actors to hold their places and starts moralizing on the duty of the artist and the audience to the written word, and serving the play... which was really a collection of badly cut lines from different Shakespeare plays that this director had pasted together with his own badly written dialogue so her could work out his own issues and fantasies on a stage with three sexy young actors. Then he pulls out a bunch of other poems he had written while he was "researching" the work and starts to read them to the audience... I just did not have the stomach to sit there watching my friends on the stage stand there uncomfortably and look at each other, and the director, and the audience, while their glorious leader jacked off in front of the whole audience like that... so I got up to leave and this guy actually points me out and accuses me of having no respect for the theater...I just had to laugh... I said I was leaving because I had too much respect for the theater, and I walked out.
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