Fixation on box office hits is killing British theatre, says David Hare
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…