Never Been To The Theatre?
I was chatting to a man in his late 30s on an app and we got on to speaking about hobbies. I said I enjoyed seeing fringe theatre and he said he'd never been to the theatre.
I was quite taken aback by that, I did not press the point (for example saying "Surely your parents took you to a panto?"), but it made me think less of him. I'm in the UK, where I think there's more of a theatre-going culture than some other countries. But am I just being horribly middle class?
I think I'd be more judgmental if someone said they never read books or did not like music.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 22, 2024 2:36 PM
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Theatre's for nerds. OP's a nerd.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 22, 2024 2:30 PM
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If someone has NEVER been to the theater by that age, yes, I judge them a bit, too, OP. And I'm an American.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 22, 2024 2:36 PM
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The theatre. The theatre. What book of rules say the theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London? Paris or Vienna?
Listen, Junior, and learn. Do you wanna know what the theatre is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band, all theatre. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre. Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford. Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable. Rex the Wild Horse, Eleonora Duse, all theatre.
You don't understand them all. You don't like them all. Why should you? The theatre's for everybody, you included, but not exclusively. So, don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theatre, but it's theatre for somebody, somewhere.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 22, 2024 2:36 PM
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