A man in the second or third row tutted loudly and shouted out “this makes me feel sick” during a performance of The American Plan at the St James theatre on Wednesday night.
Actor Mark Edel-Hunt was “so angry” at the remark from the auditorium that he went backstage, located an eyebrow pencil and the biggest piece of cardboard he could find and wrote: “Some people are gay. Get over it!”
After the curtain went down Mr Edel-Hunt took a chair and placed his message – a famous slogan from Britain’s LGBT rights campaigner Stonewall – in the middle of the stage.
“I came off stage and I was so angry about it. That’s just not an acceptable thing to say,” Mr Edel-Hunt told The Independent.
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to say such things, freedom of speech, after all. But, that someone was prepared to open a dialogue like that, made me want to invite people to respond.”
The Independent.
Not sure the sign will have done much.
The late great Richard Griffiths would have stopped the performance and told him to get the fuck out of the theatre.
After the curtain went down Mr Edel-Hunt took a chair and placed his message – a famous slogan from Britain’s LGBT rights campaigner Stonewall – in the middle of the stage.
“I came off stage and I was so angry about it. That’s just not an acceptable thing to say,” Mr Edel-Hunt told The Independent.
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to say such things, freedom of speech, after all. But, that someone was prepared to open a dialogue like that, made me want to invite people to respond.”
The Independent.
Not sure the sign will have done much.
The late great Richard Griffiths would have stopped the performance and told him to get the fuck out of the theatre.
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