Posted on 11/15/2005 10:29:27 AM PST by patton
A STUNNED Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theatre to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
"This had never happened to me in more than 300 performances," the actor, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, said.
Italy has banned lighting up in all enclosed public places since January this year.
Lo Monaco was smoking, in line with the script, while playing the main character in Miller's A View from the Bridge at a theatre in the northeastern city of Mestre, when a woman from the audience shouted "Put out that cigarette".
After a 15-minute suspension, the performance resumed with a modified script and a non-smoking protagonist.
The anti-smoking nazi's strike again.
LOLOL
Meanwhile: Austrailia passes the legalization of pot....
In the real world, the universe where I thought I lived, the moron who complained, the spectator, would be ejected (with no refund).
I love it when the libs ridiculous laws turn around and bite them in the @ss...
They are fools.
We are de-evolving.
Survival of the squeekiest.
Sheer idiocy.
Unfortunately there are far too many people right here on FR that have drunk the Kool-aid of the idiocy.
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