Komedia funding cut

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Grants are handouts (and I know, I have handed a fair few millon quid in my time) but if theatre is sp expensive that it can't pay for itself then it ought to go bust.

I don't suppose that tickets at falmer will be grant-aided because the Albion have to pay back a huge loan.

So no grants for the Falmer build then?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I never knew Komedia got funding in the first place!

Same here!

 

[tedebear]

How do you think that a tiny little revuebar in Manchester Street that occasionally had 60 people in managed to acquire the entire former premises of a supermarket in Gardner Street and turn it into a 600-capacity revuebar/nightclub/venue then?

I assumed that it operated like any other business to be honest, borrow money to buy premises, get bums on seats and income to pay back loan and one day make a profit..I don't think its that odd an assumption?

 

[Yorkie]

I never knew Komedia got funding in the first place!

Neither did I.

I was gutted about the Gardner closing. I saw a great play about the 66 World cup there a couple of years ago (courtesy of winning a couple of tickets via the club)

 

[Bozza]

Neither did I.

I was gutted about the Gardner closing. I saw a great play about the 66 World cup there a couple of years ago (courtesy of winning a couple of tickets via the club)

If that's the only thing you saw, and if that pattern of support is typical, then it's not surprising it closed down and/or needed continual funding, is it?

I know I'm as guilty as the next man of saying "we must get to the theatre more" but rarely seem to. My one visit to the Old Vic, mentioned by FWY above, was to make sure I got to see the old place before it closed for refurb/closed for good. And, being honest, conditions were shit - a refurb was long overdue.

 

[tedebear]

If that's the only thing you saw, and if that pattern of support is typical, then it's not surprising it closed down and/or needed continual funding, is it?

I know I'm as guilty as the next man of saying "we must get to the theatre more" but rarely seem to. My one visit to the Old Vic, mentioned by FWY above, was to make sure I got to see the old place before it closed for refurb/closed for good. And, being honest, conditions were shit - a refurb was long overdue.

We're not theatre people, and I haven't been for years. Its a tough line though - theatre seems to be a dying art (except in those more high profile places like the West End etc.) so do we fund it as its dying out and hope that interest perks up again, or do we let it slip away, and redevelop the buildings. Even though I'm not a theatre buff, I can't let the latter happen, although having said that I hadn't a clue of any of these goings one.