Tips for going to the theatre on the cheap | Letters

Jude McGowan on being a lifelong theatregoer on a modest budget. Plus letters from Rory Murphy and Ian WellsRe your article on theatre prices (Price of West End theatre tickets can be ludicrous, says David Tennant, 9 August), I have been a theatregoer all my life despite being of very modest means. When young, it was a queuing stool outside to buy a seat in the “gods”. My husband was a stagehand at the Royal Opera House in London, so occasionally there were free seats. Now, aged 83,