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Micky Jo (2:17)
Well, guess what tiny people who live in my camera Theatre News is making headlines this week in the British media because the award winning actress Lesley Manville, fresh from her Broadway success in Eat Octopus at Studio 54, is back in the UK and back on stage this time in a revival of Les Liaison Dangereuses opposite Aidan Turner at the National Theatre. And amidst the show's opening night performance last week, Leslie has been sharing statements about her distaste for a particular theatre going convention that has arisen over the last few years, relative to her extensive and impressive career as an actress. It's a very new phenomenon. I am talking about filming and taking photos during the curtain call, during the bows, at the end of a theatrical performance, and from the actor's perspective, audience members who, after they have delivered to them a couple of hours of storytelling, lift up their phones rather than applaud. And what we're going to reflect on today is whether this is a byproduct of contemporary theatre going or whether it's something we should actually be pushing back against. Is it inherently immoral to film a curtain call or is it actually beneficial for the theater industry? Plenty to discuss, but before we do, a quick introduction to me I'm oh my God. Hey, welcome back to my theatre themed YouTube channel. Or hello to those of you listening to this conversation, perhaps on podcast platforms. My name is Mickey Jo and I'm obsessed with all things theatre. I see hundreds of productions around the world every single year and I tend to share my thoughts about them here as a content creator and a critic on social media. If this is your first time meeting me, feel free to subscribe and check out my many other recent conversations about other shows that I have seen, as well as other issues and conversations within the theatre community. And this isn't necessarily the biggest news story, but people have asked for me to share my perspective on it and I feel as though it's important that I do because I feel a little personally implicated in this one, because when we're talking about people filming curtain calls, that is something. If you've not watched any of my theatre going vlogs that I do an awful lot of never in circumstances when I am not supposed to, but I do feel conflicted. I have felt conflicted over the years doing this, when everyone around me is enthusiastically applauding because I can attempt to do some kind of a hybrid of the two. But ultimately, if I'm holding a camera with anything other than my mouth, which I regret to inform you I have not yet perfected, I'm not going to be able to use both of my hands to clap. So just as Leslie Manville is apparently very passionate about this topic, so am I. And there is lots for us to discuss, from recapping what she has said and considering these statements to acknowledging the the rise of filming during the curtain call, where exactly this came from, where it can be beneficial, and where it can have its problems. This is like almost everything else we talk about here, a nuanced issue with no one correct answer. And while I share my thoughts and feelings with you here, I look forward to reading all of yours in the comments section down below. But in the meantime, let me tell you what Lesley Manville has said and what I think about filming during a curtain call. So to make it completely clear what we're talking about here, because the conversation that I'm seeing in some comment sections of these posts is getting a little bit co opted. We are not talking about phone use during a performance. We are not talking about illegal bootleg recordings. We are not talking about distracting your fellow audience members during the storytelling, during the actual performance of a play or a musical. We are talking specifically and solely about filming or taking photographs during the curtain call, during the bows, in the moments after a narrative has been concluded. Here is what the Olivier Award winning actress Leslie Manville had to say on that subject.
