I’d been an actor, I know when you walk on the stage it’s a
different animal every night really, and they require different
things: sometimes that audience is slow, sometimes it’s ahead of
you, you know, and sometimes it’s very, very lazy and you’ve got to
work your butt off to get them to take an interest.
Again, as for the writer, the writer has to be thinking all the
time that I’ve got to keep this audience interested. I can’t go off
into great long rants because the audience will get bored I ‘ll tell
you something about the theatre, you ‘ve got about 10 minutes to hook
the audience, which is a bonus because, if you write for television,
you’ve got about 10 seconds sometimes to get the audience interested,
but any audience will give any play 10 minutes and they’ll watch it
and if they are interested, they’ll stay and they’ll listen.
If they are not interested or you haven’t hooked them, or you
haven’t explained what you want to do or you haven’t set what sort
of play it is, and created the interest in the characters. You
start to hear, clearing of a throat, a cough here and there, then
it goes on, then the shuffling of feet and you go on and you’ve
lost them.
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Philip Martin
Writer
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