Autumn 2008
Culture and entertainment
Calderdale and its surrounding districts provide a wide range of leisure activities. This section of the survey was to find out what you think of the cultural and entertainment venues and how often you visit them.
The 3 most visited venues attended in the last three years were:
- Victoria Theatre, Halifax - 65%
- Piece Hall, Halifax - 39%
- The Alhambra, Bradford - 36%.
We then concentrated our questions on those respondents who have visited the Victoria Theatre. Over half of these visited the Victoria Theatre on average once or twice a year, around a quarter visited less than once a year, around a sixth visited three or four times a year, with the remainder (around 3%) visiting more than four times.
The 3 most popular types of performances at the Victoria theatre were:
- Rock and pop music - 37%
- Pantomime - 29%
- Musicals - 22%.
We then asked how satisfied panellists were with the shows and facilities at the Victoria Theatre. The table below displays these results:
| Satisfaction with facilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facility | Very satisfied | Satisfied | Dissatisfied | Very dissatisfied | Don't know |
| Box office opening times | 27.0% | 63.6% | 2.5% | - | 6.9% |
| Ease of online booking | 15.4% | 32.5% | 2.8% | 0.2% | 49.1% |
| Information on the website | 13.0% | 38.7% | 3.0% | 0.4% | 44.9% |
| Customer service | 25.4% | 63.5% | 1.9% | 0.2% | 9.0% |
| Seating comfort | 8.5% | 66.9% | 19.9% | 3.5% | 1.2% |
| Bar and kiosk facilities | 8.4% | 62.9% | 18.6% | 2.6% | 7.5% |
| Quality and variety of shows | 25.1% | 64.8% | 6.9% | 0.3% | 2.9% |
| View of the stage | 15.1% | 74.1% | 8.3% | 1.5% | 1.0% |
| Acoustics | 17.5% | 84.6% | 8.7% | 2.4% | 2.8% |
Thank you for the many suggestions for changes and improvements – these will be used to help improve the facilities we provide at the Victoria Theatre.
