Celebrated author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has denied suggesting theatre critics should be given free tickets to performances.
Quoting a story from The Times newspaper, The Ticketing Business reported yesterday (Tuesday) that Horowitz, a board member of the Old Vic, had suggested at an event in Edinburgh that theatres should end the practice.
However, the writer of The Diamond Brother and Alex Rider series and two Sherlock Holmes novels said he had been “misquoted” and that he was not opposed to critics receiving complimentary tickets.
“I asked, rhetorically, if it was right to give them free tickets,” Horowitz said in a tweet to The Ticketing Business. “I answered, immediately, that it was.”
Horowitz, who also wrote the James Bond novel ‘Trigger Mortis’ in 2015, was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival when the subject of critics and complimentary tickets was raised.
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