The amount of work that goes behind a play is spellbinding.And the sound department at the National Theatre has the most amazing and downright beautiful collection of musical instruments i have ever seen in my entire life.
Theatre fact:
A few years ago this place was thinking of making all the musicians redundant and replace them with recorded music.Thankfully BECTU(the union here) fought against that decision and therefore we can enjoy the music being played live by the stage to this day.Yes!

i have never really been to the theatre so i will go with the cinema. maybe i should go though, get a bit of culture.

not much into either i'm afraid.

how about option 3, a good and loud dirty band in the back of a stinky venue playing the most god-awful version of Stairway to Heaven you can imagine.

i second truncated's opinion on theatrical acting, and would like to add theatre goers as another reason as to why i prefer the cinema. theatre goers talk too loud during the interval because they want everyone to listen to or overhear their interesting/pompous opinions. and theatre going women are all fat and wear those poncho/robe things to try to disguise their fatness.

How many times have you been to see a play or,better still,how many theatres have you been to Toilet & Bowels?The theatrical acting thing can be deconstructed in a more interesting way if need be.Hmmmm....Abigail's party comes to mind for a start.

The crowds vary according to the type of play.The amount of fucking wankers we got for plays such as 'An Enemy of the people' or 'The motherfucking Aristocrats' was incredible.But you get that at tons of gigs and with much more vengeance methinks.Theatre crowds tend,at least,to try and shut the fuck up when they are watching something.

i'm not saying you don't get wankers at gigs, but generally music cancels out their wankery for me.
i haven't been to the theatre in a couple of years, but i used to go about three or four times a year.

So i suppose you'd know that there is a huge number of them,i imagine.

huge number of theatres or wankers?

Just talked to one.

you just talked to a theatre?

...

well if you were talking to someone in a theatre it doesn't surprise me that they were a wanker

That must be it then.

problem solved! eveyone in a theatre is a wanker.


actually, i forgot, i went to the theatre a couple of months ago.

You are such a wanker.

pfff. who isn't these days?

It's been a trend for ages.It's about time that someone puts a stop to it Le Toilette.

Cinema. Albeit, tasteful cinema- none of that CGI shite.

Then again, shitty pretentious arthouse films (Last Days) plague the cinema industry now. I miss those cartoon films about the dinosaur children.

What's most important to me is to see how actors react to one another. I'd go for theater for that reason - they can't hide when their partner's addressing them, when a movie director can edit his film the way he/she wants - even stupidly.
Flaws are more obvious on a stage.
Flaws can be hidden in a film - make up here, start again there.
Life's filled with flaws.
Demi Moore, Sharon Stone - no flaw girls in empty pictures.
When you've got human beings on the screen it's wonderful, and I still chase movies to witness Nick Nolte's overacting vs John Cusack's stillness when the battle is over in The Thin Red Line, or Benicio Del Toro talking to James Caan in The Way of the Gun. But connections never last long in most movies when they pervade through all plays .