Joe Bennett’s play The Die, at the Lyttelton Arts Factory, has been drawing full houses.
OPINION: What a week. Our show at the Lyttelton Arts Factory has been selling out night after night, but do you think people will accept that a House Full sign means that the house is full? It is hard to credit the sense of entitlement of some people, though it does help you understand how Trump secured a foothold in a national psyche. Spoilt by decades of being instantaneously gratified by shopping malls, the Internet, and food so fast they don t have to get out of their car, some people expect tickets to materialise where there are none to be had. And when those tickets don t materialise they become like thwarted toddlers, wheedling, threatening, stamping their pampered feet, then trying bribery. I ve been offered sums of money to make the eyes water, the hand of first-born children in marriage or civil union according to taste, and even shares in the failing American high street retailer