The Stage: Culture minister admits plans for free theatre ticket scheme "rushed"
Culture minister Margaret Hodge has admitted that the government rushed through plans for the free theatre ticket scheme A Night Less Ordinary.
At the National Campaign for the Arts political hustings last week, Hodge said of the scheme, which aims to give away 602,000 free tickets to young people aged under 26 over two years: “I think we should have spent a little bit more time devising the scheme before we embarked on it and I think that is a justified criticism.”
The culture minister continued: “We did take a risk, we are learning from it and we have now got to think, was that an appropriate way in which we could encourage young people who haven’t been to theatre before to come there? Is there a better way of doing it or is it a policy that has no future? There’s another year for this to run and then there will be a proper evaluation and we’ll learn from it.”
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