A Kent theatre has been branded “disgraceful” for refusing to offer school discount tickets to students at a performing arts academy. The Marlowe in Canterbury provides heavily reduced rates to groups of pupils studying at primaries and secondaries across the county and further afield. But the principal of a local theatre school teaching students aged 16-18 says they are being denied the concession, despite enjoying the “generous” discount in previous years. “The Marlowe don’t consider us worthy,” said Mr Hodges, who heads the JGH Academy in Canterbury. “What they’re saying is that someone stu…
