Noisy coughing and spluttering seems to be more prevalent in the theatre than at the cinema " but why?Coughing at the theatre is a year-round British sport. As the theatre critic James Agate once observed: "Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis."I once sat through a revival of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in which every pause was filled by a collecti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AM on October 15, 2012