Back in the day, you used to be able to say, well, I’ll just pop down to the pictures and grab a popcorn and coke and be back home with the change from a fiver, whereas sit in uncomfortable seats watching some dreary checkov and you wouldn’t get much back from a fifty. Well, folks, times they are a-changing. Nowadays, go to the cinema of an evening and try to get a ticket with some popcorn and a drink, and you pretty much have to march in waving a twenty, whereas head to the national theatre and watch a show in the Travelex season, and you’re ten quid all in.
Not only is theatre competitive for price, but it has the potential to be so much more alive than the cinema. Something about watching live theatre makes the audience need to sit and listen, whilst try to get those crisp-munching kids behind you to pipe down during a coen-brothers flick and you’re lucky to escape with an ear-bashing. And the attentiveness, coupled with watching live performers telling you a story as you sit there, means now that the cost is down, the theatre wins hands down in every category.
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