Playwright says the craft is being damaged by focus on selling seatsSir David Hare has warned that an obsession with box-office success is having a detrimental effect on British theatre and distorting decisions about which plays are staged.The playwright said: "Because subsidy is so stretched … every director of a theatre has an emollient eye on the box-office. It is now assumed that what is good is that which succ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22PM on April 16, 2016