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This thread has reminded me of going to the Theatre Royal a couple of decades ago. My in-laws took us to see The Roy Orbison Story. An evening of great songs being performed less well than Roy would have done them, but the audience was full of people who shared a love and, as it was pointed...

Yep. I'm a music lover and must say that the awful din shouldn't be heard in public. And the audience's singing wasn't much better. ;)

John McGrath wrote a manifesto back in the seventies called 'A Good Night Out' which detailed how to go about addressing the gap between theatre and working class audiences. Take it to them rather than asking them to enter your hallowed space, serve food, have a bar open, use music, break the...