The cast of Neighbourhood Watch with Margolyes at right. Image supplied.
Lally Katz’s Neighbourhood Watch, starring Miriam Margolyes, is the first production in the company’s history to generate over $400,000 in ticket sales.
Its success follows a sold-out season of The Seagull and a near sell-out of The Long Way Home, and marks a significant and sustained turnaround for the company, which in the 2012-13 financial year recorded its lowest attendances since 2006, according to the Company’s financial reports.
Compared to the previous financial year – in which the State Theatre Company’s box office revenue dropped to under a million dollars – Neighbourhood Watch has already brought in nearly half that amount for this year alone.
‘It is especially exciting that this box office record has been set by a recent Australian work,’ CEO and producer Rob Brookman said.
The previous box office record at State Theatre Company of South Australia was set by co-production Brief Encounter last September, which raked in $380,000 in ticket sales, with nearly 9,000 attendances.
