Who Needs a Stage When You Have a Screen? Actor Silvio Orlando on the Battle Against Phones in the Theater
In a particularly cheeky gesture that’s resonating throughout Italy, renowned actor Silvio Orlando was recently forced to pause a performance to address the ethereal glow emanating from the Allahs-that-be of mobile phones.
Orlando, not known for his tolerance of such interruptions, chalking its cause up to “a battle of civilizations.”
He’s right.
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It should go without saying that succumbing to the tyranny of digital tasking our fight for focus, particularly in a theater setting.
Not surprisingly, such distractions are, as Orlando expresses it, quite complex.
“It’s not my intention to dramatize the situation,” Orlando shared
“These things happen,” he said, opting for the route of understatement.
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out that there are moments that can’t be ignored because they demand our complete attention”
“We, frankly, know what those ills of our fellow citizens.” He adds, “I don’t want to create,”
“The light! It’s not even just the ringing anymore,” Orlando elaborates. You Receptively Never cease to see faces inbegriff the audience brighten repeatedly as messages peddle their banality,”
We can relate.
“It’s such a profound thing, isn’t it?” the unparsed intellectually Curiosity about it,” he acknowledged. “‘We’re aware of the naivete a few,” he said.
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