Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

West End manners

A social leper tells us of his miserable existence

issue 30 August 2003

Two tickets, booked over the phone, in row L of the stalls: £87.50. At the box office in the theatre’s foyer we were handed our tickets by a condescending, black-shirted woman. An unpleasantly condescending black-shirted girl at the top of the stairs demanded to see our tickets before allowing us to go any further.

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