To think that theatre tickets for children's shows are extortionate?

[StableButDeluded]

DH & I took DS aged 4 to see a children's show in our local theatre yeaterday. It was a stage version of 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'. Tickets were £9.50 for adults and £7.50 for children. I thought this was reasonable, though do feel slightly at only £2 reduction for children's ticket.

It was his first theatre experience, he enjoyed it immensly, so I thought I'd look at booking the pantomine.

£24 for adults and £22 per child!! So I thought 'can't afford that', looked at other upcoming shows & they are all around £17 per adult and £15 per child.

I think this is very unfair given the fact that as they are children's shows, an adult HAS to attend. A measly £2 reduction is pathetic.

I do realise pantomimes and stage shows are costly to stage, but it makes me sad that something that I enjoyed fairly regularly as a child (and my parents did not have much money seems to have become so expensive that a lot of families can't afford take their children to the theatre.

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I know I bang on about the cost of living in Switzerland but consider this. Walking with dinosaurs has just been and gone from Zurich. Adults cost 80 chf and children were 70. A reduction for kids of a whole 8 pounds. In January a ballet on ice is coming to the local icehockey stadium. Nice, I thought I'd take dd. The cheapest seats are 120 chf with no reduction for children at all. She didn't see the dinosaurs and won't be going to the ice ballet. It is sad, but, having taken her to see Mary Poppins in London a couple of years ago, we learned ourlesson. All she wanted from the trip was an umbrella

I just thought 3 people on stage walking round a crappy looking tree, over acting BADLY BIG TIME, plus the mouse/woman had a screeching hidous voice, it was not sincere, magical or fun.

I want some theatre when I go to the theatre as well as some decent acting!

Can't wait to see Lion!

I support Ermintrude's points completely.

Seek out your nearest Arts Council subsidised theatre, and then support funding for the arts . If you local theatre or arts centre does not have children's theaytre on a regular basis, write and ask them why not - and write to your local counil, and regional arts council. Children have as much right as adults to access subsidised arts provision!

When I was responsible for a programe of children's theatre, I introduced a v cheap ticket for the accompanying adult, and the more expensive ticket for the child! (but none of it was v expensive)