The Grand Theatre

This is in the Garden Quarter (location G9), with the smaller Playhouse Theatre adjoining it. The Grand is a spectacular place-all faded baroque splendor and gilt-and provides a variety of classical drama, exceptional bardish entertainment, poetry readings and the like all the year round except for the annual holiday in the second week of Goodmonth. Experimental and avant-garde works, and comedies, are presented at the Playhouse.

Charges for admission vary with the production-a bardic matinee might be as little as 5 sp, but a box for six on the last night of a major classical play could cost 30 gp or more, and tickets for such luxuries are usually sold out well in advance, so that PCs may have to deal with scalpers who charge two to four times the face value (and there is a 25% chance the ticket is forged anyway).

The Theatrical Director is a Keolandish half-elf, Kahari Kellainen, who is a priest of Lirr, the goddess of prose, poetry, and art. He organizes the schedule of productions for both theatres, arranges for traveling theatrical companies to visit (Celene bards and the Leukish Ducal Theatricals are very popular). and hires and fires the work force, in addition to directing plays. He is a very busy half-elf!