We still have a few more comps left for this initiative, so spread the word to any of your potential guests that they too can have a ticket waiting at the door if they don’t regularly make it to theatre and tell us why here.

Yev – your answer DOES count. Also, you should contact theatres you like about ushering opportunities. Show up 45 minutes early, hand out some programs, see the show for free.

mw

It may be for the same reason that I don’t go to the cinema, watch television, or go to other performance art events very often: I’m not one for entertainment. The reasons that come to mind: I feel like I should be doing something else, like work (always work); it’s a bit of a luxury that I may not have “earned”; it’s not returnable – if it’s terrible, my time and my money are both gone (yes, rather silly); legal concerns and a lack of physical capability (I’m not particularly big, you see) restrict me from exacting appropriate punishment on other members of the audience who engage in disruptive activities; and, finally, I don’t often find a story that appeals to me.