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.