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Bad night out
No stars for that one, then. Stage blogger Mark Shenton bemoans the rise of the near- ubiquitous rating system on the review pages, and tries to stay awake during a revival of Brecht's last play:
I was suddenly struck by a possible new barometer of an audience’s complete boredom: the number of people I spotted picking their noses. Yes, it got as bad as that. Not just that so many were doing so - but that my attention was wandering so badly that I was able to take in this grim spectacle, too. And it was more diverting than the play...
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