Some audience members would still be taken off to other rooms, Eynon added, but their experiences would be different. Now, it would simply involve the actors dancing, and there would only be 70 spectators, all wearing masks and sitting in chairs, spaced out to maintain social distancing.
“The freedom to move among the audience was something we used to play with and now we’re slightly restricted to a more traditional theater setup,” she added.īefore lockdown, she said, the Charleston had been staged as a dance lesson for the 250-strong audience, with everyone encouraged to join in. The whole basis of the show had to change because of coronavirus, said Katy Eynon, its general manager, as she watched the rehearsal. In 2018, the police were called after actors complained of being sexually assaulted by audience members.)
(Sometimes audience members got a bit too close. The cast would also take a handful of lucky audience members off to other rooms in the townhouse - Gatsby’s boudoir, for instance - to take part in short, interactive scenes. During the show, the actors roamed among the audience, often talking directly with attendees to bring them into the action. Audience members came dressed in suits or flapper dresses, and stood drinking in a grand room of a London townhouse, decorated in the style of a 1920s bar. Before lockdown, the show was often described as being as much a party as a play.
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