Sending emails during Hamlet: Obsession with ‘theatre etiquette’ could turn audiences away
by Jessie Thompson
Jan 03, 2024
4 minutes
In her final essay collection before her death, I Remember, Nora Ephron included a list entitled “What I won’t miss”. On it, she included “email” – twice. “I know I already said it, but I want to emphasise it,” she wrote. Because you can never get on top of emails, and you can never get away from them. Just ask , who that he had to stop doing the “To be or not to be” soliloquy in because a man was sitting in the audience, answering his emails. (Would love to know what it said – maybe “no worries if not to be!”).
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