All the world's a stage. You've got more than one.
This week's programme is what an AI assistant gets when it asks about this week, with the age guidance and the seats that are genuinely left. Nothing quoted from a season that ended months ago.
Selfe connects your tickets to the AI agents people increasingly use to choose and buy.
Theatre by the Lake
Keswick Alhambra
Right until the day it is wrong.
An AI assistant putting a Friday together asks what is on, whether it suits a nine year old, and whether there are three seats to be had. Every one of those answers is good for about a week.
A programme page is accurate the day it goes up. By the time an agent reads it the run has changed, a matinee has been added, the seats worth having are gone and the guidance for the new production is not the guidance for the last one.
Ask in the wrong week and you are missed or misquoted. Misquoted is the more expensive of the two, because somebody turns up expecting a different evening.
Every performance, sold as its own night out.
A run is not one product, and the Thursday matinee has to be able to win on its own merits.
One entry per date and time.
Each performance held on its own, with its own cast, price and guidance.
Seats that are still there.
How many are left, whereabouts in the house they sit, and whether three of them are together.
Part of the whole day.
Where the curtain falls against dinner, the last train home, and what else is on that night.
The questions that decide it.
Running time, whether there is an interval, step-free routes, and where the hearing loop reaches.
Runs that end when they end.
It stops offering a run the day it closes and starts the next one the day it opens.
How old the answer is, and what that costs
Seven weeks of sentences going stale, then the same facts read again just now. A house that sells out in a different shape every night cannot be answered from something written in January.
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Bought by people who were not looking for a show.
Somebody planning two days away is not searching for your theatre. They are working out where to eat, what to do with a wet afternoon, and how to fill the evening before the train home.
A pair of tickets for the Thursday gets added while an agent is still putting the plan together, and that is a different contest from the one you usually enter. You are not up against the other theatre. You are up against an empty evening.
So the Tuesday sells, and the matinee sells, to people who had no intention of a show when the day started. Your Selfe put you in front of them at the one moment the evening was still open. Booked with you, at your prices, and the person who came is yours to ask back.
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Can it sell a particular seat, or only say we exist?
A particular seat, on a particular night, at the price your box office is holding it at. What is left changes shape at every performance, so it is read when the question is asked rather than published in advance, and a seat that went at eight is not still being offered at five past.
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