has criticised the cost of ticket prices for theatre, saying that their exorbitance is making it an “elitist” pursuit. Theatre, he argued, should be open to all and “part of our blood and bones” instead.ceremony on Sunday night at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
When he first became a passionate theatregoer, “it was much easier” to see plays cheaply, he said. The rise in prices is one of the biggest changes he had seen in the theatre industry over his career, he continued. “I’m not on the production side, the business side, so perhaps I’m talking through my hat but when they say it’s £150 for a seat in the stalls, I understand that – and it shocks me,” he said.at the Harold Pinter theatre with James Norton in the cast, is £195.
Even crap theatre is elitist. If a show is not of interest why should it exist? Who should pay for it? Derek should stick to musicals and pantos if he wants bums on seats.
It always was, and is. And the working class subsidise it via their taxes. It’s King Louis XVI stuff. Bring out the guillotines.
It has forever been thus! A working class kid like me never had the opportunity for so many reasons