to ask if you would have a problem with paying to see this show?

[manicinsomniac]

For context:
I am involved in two different amateur theatre groups. One has a very high standard and the other much less so. The second group is a charity but the first is not. Which does give the second group an obligation to include everyone where possible, regardless of dramatic ability (we have some kind of education clause). The first group is free to (and does) hold very intense and competitive audition processes.

The dilemma:
The winter show I am in with the second group has two cast members who find acting really challenging but love it and, for the first time, a cast member with learning difficulties. This individual is actually really good but has quite unclear speech and doesn't always understand where to go when.

The tickets for the show are not cheap (around the £8 mark) and I am worried that we will get complaints from the audience that the show was not worth paying for. The show itself, many of the individual actors and all of the children and dancers are very good.

I suppose my question is:
Would you have a problem with having paid for a show that is done by an inclusive group? The posters cannot really make this clear (do say registered charity I think but that's all).

I'm involved in an am dram group which is totally inclusive, we charge more than that and always have a full house. We do have a small number with disabilities including learning difficulties.
No one has ever said anything negative about them.

Our bigger issue is the teen who thinks she is the best and has a pushy over involved mum who is really not good at acting, singing too quiet and can't dance. And they don't mind who they trample on.

There's an inclusive youth group like this near me - I did wonder for a time whether you were talking about the same one, but the further information you give shows it isn't. They have a keen member with learning difficulties who is regularly cast, plus some pretty limited actors in addition to some really excellent ones. They don't have a problem with selling tickets, nor do they have any complaints: I think people really respect them for the opportunities they give.

Put something in the programme about the ethos of the group - then go for it. £8 is reasonable.

When DD1 did Shakespeare for schools there was a special school there, performing Julius Caesar. (There were also two senior schools and a junior school performing other abridged plays.)

The performance was moving and enjoyable, and they told the story well. The tickets were more than £8, and I felt that their contribution added to the value of the whole experience.