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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand Stage editor

Derek Jacobi: high ticket prices are making theatre ‘elitist’

Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek Jacobi with his lifetime achievement award. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images

Sir Derek Jacobi has criticised the cost of ticket prices for theatre, saying that their exorbitance is making it an “elitist” pursuit. Theatre, he argued, should be open to all and “part of our blood and bones” instead.

Jacobi, 84, was honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at the Olivier awards ceremony on Sunday night at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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