“Theatre” Google Charts Decline in Interest Over Time

Here’s a graph showing the interest over time of the search term ‘Theatre’ on google. It must be a sobering image for anyone working in the industry. And before anyone suggests that it’s an spelling issue the americanised ‘Theater’ also shows a similar result. We have a lot of work to do.

Try it for yourself here http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore

Author: Alexander Parsonage

Alexander is an award winning theatre director and documentary maker based in London, England. He writes on arts policy, funding and theatre development.

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