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August 6, 2008
Royal Shakespeare Company warning over David Tennant Hamlet tickets
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I'm not sure if this article is trying to suggest the people who purchased these £5 tickets were selling them for hundreds of pounds on ebay. I myself camped over all night to buy a £5 for the last show of Hamlet in Stratford. I am glad the RSC did this because i would have had no chance to go...
Sarah Moloney, Warwick,
Isn't it market forces at work? Is it any different from a hit West End show with ticket touts outside which producers are often (secretly) proud of? Or a test match? Everything today has its price and surely there's not much the RSC can do about it if someone is foolish enough to pay it!
Peter Harlock, London, UK
People knowingly trying to extort money from tickets should loose them for no refund. Selling them on at face value if you were no longer able to attend would be another thing entirely, but profiting by deceiving a venue that you intend to use the tickets yourself is wrong and should be illegal.
Damian Stuart, Baldock,
And the same will happen next year when Jude Law plays Hamlet at the Donmar. Might not the RSC and the Donmar think about filming such productions thus giving those not able to see the productions at theatres a chance of viewing them.
Chris Ketteridge, London,
It would be nice if the RSC made it clear on their website that tickets sold out in May instead of letting you click on hamlet, choose a day, try to book, and then after having wasted half an hour for web pages that are totally jammed up to not open, they then tell you that they have no tickets.
Ro, Cheltenham,
Methinks the RSC protests too much. The donmar faced this with Othello so the RSC must have known this would happen but coincidentally do nothing until the reviews hit the press. Star actors will always caus this what we need are longer runs not the hit & run runs we have today.
barry, Hornchurch, UK