Performing arts school boss dismayed after theatre ticket snub
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00:00 I'm so angry, I feel like it's just such an inequity when we've got so many local schools
00:09 that are still being offered this discount. We're talking about sixth form age students
00:13 who are studying for 45 hours a week, dedicating their whole lives to performing arts, musical
00:18 theatre, and they're being treated completely differently to people that go to a regular
00:24 sort of sixth form, what's deemed by the Marlow as an academic school as opposed to vocational
00:30 training. We've got an institution here that is the biggest theatre in Kent, that's their
00:37 own admission, and they see themselves as an arts hub who are actively supporting the
00:43 community. We're a really small independent institution, we already have students who
00:48 have graduated working internationally, worldwide, so our impact long term hopefully will be
00:54 quite great on the performing arts industry, but we've got an institution that's now unwilling
01:00 to support our students and their education by supporting it with theatre trips. And unfortunately
01:07 the other price tickets here just aren't affordable to us, we pay for all of the students' theatre
01:14 trips, we budget for them each year, but we just can't budget for the kind of prices that
01:20 are now on offer to us.