Playwright says the craft is being damaged by focus on selling seatsSir David Hare has warned that an obsession with box office success is having a detrimental effect on British theatre and distorting decisions about which plays are staged.
The playwright said: “Because subsidy is so stretched … every director of a theatre has an emollient eye on the box office. It is now assumed that what is superior is that which succeeds.
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Source: theguardian.com