America's troubled economy has hit audiences for Broadway productions, particularly those charging rates of over $100 a seat.
Laing's early writing spoke, poetically, from his troubled gut to growing audiences of the disenchanted and mentally unbalanced, including me.
It would seem a more likely bet for breakout success, being both a shorter and a more sophisticated effort, and it's packed with all those ingredients — chiefly sexual violence and a plot gesturing vaguely at Europe's troubled political history — that audiences here tend to look for in a foreign favorite.
To make matters worse -- not so much for Sarah as for the audience -- this troubled fellow is not just your run-of-the-mill sexually frustrated, split-personality slasher but some kind of evil spirit who has, perhaps unwittingly, infiltrated his neighbor's mind.
Of course, it took "2001" a few years to find its audience, so the troubled journey of "Solaris" may not be over yet.
Although many of the attentive punters had never clapped eyes on a foxhound, the local hunts that run point-to-points were making the most of any opportunity to advertise their troubled cause to a wider audience.
Hollywood films about troubled geniuses have attracted large audiences in recent years, with subjects ranging from the mathematician John Nash to the painters Jackson Pollock and Frida Kahlo.
Yet the network had every reason to believe that a television audience would grant the troubled singer more than one last chance.
Coote made the audience hang on every troubled word of these songs; her tone was wonderfully even, her delivery unadorned and utterly direct.
After the surprise success last year of Morrissey's Autobiography (its interminable rehashes of his legal problems and all), there's suddenly a whole new audience for Hulme's troubled torch singer.
