Hamlet has sold out (at last). I could use some perspective from this board, particularly the British members. RADA's intention with the ballot and the "tickets may not be transferred or sold" was obviously to make the process as fair as possible. Do you think the fans' working twitter to beg for tickets, fans who succeeded at the ballot giving their system IDs to other fans to buy tickets, fans from abroad who had no intention of attending "gifting" their tix to other fans, etc., is in the spirit of what RADA intended?

I probably shouldn't be so surprised by their actions, given what I've read about their behavior getting seats for Coriolanus. But it irks me that people who did succeed on the 2nd ballot (which was deliberately overdrawn by RADA) and got their emails late, were likely prevented from getting tickets by these fans. And I wonder - how likely are these fans (as opposed to more 'normal' theatre goers who applied) to support RADA in future if TH is not involved?