A repertory company costs more to run than a producing house that does one play at a time, for a reason that is easy to state: three plays need three sets of everything and one audience.
What ticket income does not cover
It covers the run. It does not cover the rehearsal weeks before the run, and a rotation needs more of them than a single production does, because the company is learning three plays at once.
Membership
Priority booking a week ahead, the returns queue by telephone rather than in person, and an invitation to the first read-through of each rotation, which is the most interesting three hours in the theatrical year and the one nobody ever gets to see.
Supporting a production
Named in the programme and on this site, on the production’s own page, for as long as that page exists. We do not put supporters’ names on the building.
Leaving something in a will
The 1974 fabric of this house — the thrust, the rake, the gallery and all the faults this site is candid about — was paid for by a public subscription that took eleven years. Talk to us.