Culture: Bard Still Busting the Box Office ; the Royal Shakespeare Company, Currently On a Roll with Its Successful Complete Works Festival, has Announced Plans for Next Year, Writes Terry Grimley

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The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works festival is proving a big commercial as well as artistic success.

With four months still remaining, the ambitious project to perform all of Shakespeare's works within a single year, with RSC productions taking place alongside visiting companies from around the world, has already achieved 80 per cent of the income budget for the year, selling more than 450,000 tickets in total, and taking more than pounds 8.4 million through the box office.

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Culture: Bard Still Busting the Box Office ; the Royal Shakespeare Company, Currently On a Roll with Its Successful Complete Works Festival, has Announced Plans for Next Year, Writes Terry Grimley

The August bank holiday weekend broke all box office records with more than 8,000 tickets sold for performances in five venues (98 per cent of capacity). At least one in ten audience members so far are under 25 years old, and ...

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