Thanks for your message, it's quite a good thing to have this explained by people who witnessed it first hand (I had heard about this from someone else as well).
I was there on the first preview night, Benedict played the Creature and was exhausted, he came out in loose clothes and crazy hair just for us, and even if he said yes to photos that's when he insisted on not posting them all over the internet. Which prompted me to quickly post about it on Cumberbatchfans, kind of creating a general rule of "do not post" and has been so far quite a success, considering how few pictures have popped up on the internet in the last month. I don't expect people to follow it, and I'm not there to judge, but it has certainly warned the fans with good common sense not to bother him too much about pictures. Especially on nights when he plays the Creature.
I saw the play on Thursday and stage doored for the second time in the run, it was a peaceful affair, and people were very calm and lovely. I saw the play again on Friday, as it was the Young Patrons event of the NT (which I'm part of) and barely stopped at the stage door, just to say good bye to a group of german friends who had travelled to come and see the show. I had no intention of staying around as I thought it was inappropriate, considering I'd been there the day before and it was "done". When I was leaving quickly before any actors would come out, Raks appeared out of nowhere to stage door, and with that timing, the only probable explanation was that she was at the door, again, because she was around and because she could. I was genuinely baffled. I've seen Frankenstein 5 times, yet I did not stage door everytime I went to see it, just because I think it's awkward. I love my London theater, I indulge in seeing things I like many times if I want to, I stage door once maybe twice everything I see (if the play is good) and that's no secret to anyone who knows me, but stage dooring the shit out of it constantly is just to bizarre. And I certainly don't stage door outside of seeing a play either.
So yeah, I'm mostly extremly uncomfortable with that behavior, these guys don't owe us anything, giving time at the stage door for the fans is lovely but not obligatory, which is also why I completely understand Johnny's absence at the stage door as well, I heard he's not too comfortable with this, and it's fair enough, we're just strangers, happy enthusiastic strangers yes, but still strangers. Nothing else. You can have David Suchet who will ask for fans to queue at the stage door and will meet them ONE BY ONE in the theater, or you can have Naomie Harris who will never show her face at the door, and it's all fine. Again, they don't owe use anything at all.
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I was there on the first preview night, Benedict played the Creature and was exhausted, he came out in loose clothes and crazy hair just for us, and even if he said yes to photos that's when he insisted on not posting them all over the internet.
Which prompted me to quickly post about it on Cumberbatchfans, kind of creating a general rule of "do not post" and has been so far quite a success, considering how few pictures have popped up on the internet in the last month. I don't expect people to follow it, and I'm not there to judge, but it has certainly warned the fans with good common sense not to bother him too much about pictures. Especially on nights when he plays the Creature.
I saw the play on Thursday and stage doored for the second time in the run, it was a peaceful affair, and people were very calm and lovely. I saw the play again on Friday, as it was the Young Patrons event of the NT (which I'm part of) and barely stopped at the stage door, just to say good bye to a group of german friends who had travelled to come and see the show. I had no intention of staying around as I thought it was inappropriate, considering I'd been there the day before and it was "done". When I was leaving quickly before any actors would come out, Raks appeared out of nowhere to stage door, and with that timing, the only probable explanation was that she was at the door, again, because she was around and because she could.
I was genuinely baffled.
I've seen Frankenstein 5 times, yet I did not stage door everytime I went to see it, just because I think it's awkward. I love my London theater, I indulge in seeing things I like many times if I want to, I stage door once maybe twice everything I see (if the play is good) and that's no secret to anyone who knows me, but stage dooring the shit out of it constantly is just to bizarre.
And I certainly don't stage door outside of seeing a play either.
So yeah, I'm mostly extremly uncomfortable with that behavior, these guys don't owe us anything, giving time at the stage door for the fans is lovely but not obligatory, which is also why I completely understand Johnny's absence at the stage door as well, I heard he's not too comfortable with this, and it's fair enough, we're just strangers, happy enthusiastic strangers yes, but still strangers. Nothing else. You can have David Suchet who will ask for fans to queue at the stage door and will meet them ONE BY ONE in the theater, or you can have Naomie Harris who will never show her face at the door, and it's all fine. Again, they don't owe use anything at all.