RSC All New Seasons

Astonishing how expensive the RSC has got now - and bumping up the prices so much on a Saturday is criminal. AND I got stung with the automatically added donation schtick because I was sneakily booking at work and only had one eye on it...

Joined as a member to get the SRB Tempest tickets but that's the last bit of cash they get from me (unless he goes back to do something else).

My mum made the decision to pay for the Shakespeare Circle membership for £100 for this year only.

Seriously I didn't put her up to this, she just did it

She fancied the private screening of the birthday celebration broadcast at the new Other Place, and we can try the supporter's lottery which would give us a higher chance of getting seats in the theatre.

After 10 years of going to the RSC year after year, if this shows how mad we are about Shakespeare I don't know what is

At least we got tickets for The Tempest. I wan't to be up close for that show.

Still even the supporter's booking was troublesome. Took ages to get through to choosing seats

Got a call back! The answer is that they have held some stalls seats off sale as they don't know what the views are going to be like due to the technology being used - but they've been told the band c circle seats will be fine.

Also got my inadvertent donation refunded so worth dropping them an email or calling if that happened to you

Still stand by my rant on the ticket prices though

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The board may have moved but the comments have survived unchanged.

Supply and demand - the higher Saturday ticket prices encourage local audiences to attend on weekdays when there is usually spare capacity. This pricing policy directly increases the availability of tickets for visitors from afar who can only easily attend on Saturdays. Obviously the Saturday visitors come from all directions, not just from London. The higher prices affect non-London visitors more because the Londoners have the option of easily attending many other Shakespeare productions in their home locality.

Supply and demand certainly seems to be affecting the pricing of wonder.land, now on TKTS, despite you assuring us it would have broad appeal across all demographics and be packed out. That was on the old board though so I assume over here you hold the entirely opposite opinion. If RSC midweeks are not full then increasing Saturday prices is an idiotic policy to address that - reducing mid-week prices is the answer. 

Yes, the ticket discounts are available on various midweek performances to various groups, all targeted to leave maximum availability for the geographically challenged.

Yes - however if they budget to cover a certain general percentage throughout the week, then by law of averages if you decrease ticket pricing for one show you have to raise it for another. The RSC seem to have less ticket offer opportunities than their cousins on the South Bank, so raising tickets now (and not decreasing mid-week mats) is a feasible route forward to ensuring they hit the budget cover they need.

Of course, as we well know, a discount sounds better if it starts at a higher price point. Peculiarity of psychology, unfortunately.

Associate Member booking opened today and I was amazed how much King Lear and The Tempest had already nearly sold out for the performance dates I was after. OK, I live fairly close to Stratford and go for the over 60 reduction performances but the seats I usually buy were completely sold out. King Lear I can understand to a certain extent as there aren't so many performances of that but there are masses of performances of The Tempest. I pity anyone who is waiting for the public booking date.

If anyone wants to book seats before public booking opens, just put '2016' into the promotional code box and hey presto! (From today's Telegraph).

They won't, it's a genuine offer -

www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/royal-shakespeare-company-priority-booking-tickets/

I've mailed them to ask for a refund on my membership