September 12. Day 256. Keep it nice

What exactly would make you think that is okay?
Scenario 1. Pictured is Emma Mary Hall. She's a performer and her one woman show Ode to Man is on at The Brisbane Festival this week. It's a personal walk through of what she has learned about men through her failed relationships and associated research. In the show she reflects on an email from a venue manager who wondered if it was okay to ask how she justified a show with such a visceral hatred of men with taking one home that night. Um what? In what universe would a question like that be okay?
Scenario 2. Another performance space just across from where Emma performed. It was the two-man show Bali. A group of women come in late after the show is underway. It requires them to walk across the front of the stage. They are drunk. They talk loudly. One of the performers stops mid performance, steps forward and addresses them directly. He tells them he can hear every word. He tells them it is very distracting. He asks them to stop. They do - until about 20 minutes later when one gets up and walks out - again across the front of the stage. About five minutes later another one does the same.
This is never okay. It is rude. It is ignorant. It is disrespectful of the performers and the other audience members. This is a 60 minute show which presumably you paid for. What would make you think this is okay? What would be so urgent you had to leave? After the show I see them at the bar. I feel like saying something but my mother taught me that if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all. The world would be a better place if other people also learned some manners.