Bring the noise: live theatre needn't be watched in respectful silence
Benedict Cumberbatch has appealed for decorum from audiences at Hamlet. But as the Edinburgh fringe proves, art can thrive in less than perfect conditionsIt seems that audiences have been playing up a bit at the Barbican, and Benedict Cumberbatch has had to ask them " ever so nicely " to stop taking photographs and trying to film him while he does Hamlet's great soliloquies. I reckon this presents a bit of a conundru…