During the recent performance of “Macbeth,” Tiit Ojasoo had to go on stage to admonish the audience about their phones. The director himself and actress Anne Veesaar visited “Ringvaate”, where they shared their stories about interference in shows and agreed that it is necessary to draw attention to the issue at the society level from time to time.
“During the break, I told the audience that they could take it easy and not look at their phones during the show,” Ojasoo said.
“If there are 600 people in the hall, three or four people can ruin the impression of watching this show for many. Unfortunately, I can’t go to all those three or four people. So I was forced to speak to the whole hall,” He has explained.
“The phone screen still disturbs the spectators very much, as well as the actors and the orchestra. There are also some rules of etiquette in a symphony concert which are a little different than in a jazz concert, there is a third way in a football match. That they could also be observed and known, because the rest of the people take these rules of etiquette into account.”
Anne Veesaar recalled her experience ten years ago, when during the show “Good Night Mommy”, a man in the front row spoke loudly into the phone several times. “When it happened for the third or fourth time, the rest of the audience somehow reacted, but no one dared to tell this man. Then I realized that my partner Helgi Sallo was already white and green in the face, I stopped the show, I broke the fourth wall, grabbed this man’s butt and told him to please go away,” Veesaar shared the incident.
“I came home and I was so angry that I posted it on Facebook and the next morning the whole story appeared in Postimehes and then journalists started calling me,” Veesaar said, referring to history repeating itself.
“The question is where this general cultural attention is located and where it can be remembered from time to time,” Ojasoo said.
2024-01-19 18:46:00
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