Play Credits at the theatre: what they are and are not

Fictional credits only: how many you start with, how the free top-up works and why credits can never be bought, sold or cashed out.

Your opening balance at the theatre

A new account begins with 50,000 Play Credits. A matinee seat receives its own separate 50,000, and those disappear when the matinee ends.

The free top-up between performances

Whenever an account falls below 1,000 Play Credits it can claim a free top-up to 15,000, once every two hours. There is no quicker route to more credits, and no route that involves money.

What theatre credits can never do

Play Credits cannot be bought, sold, given to someone else, swapped for prizes or withdrawn. They have no monetary value at Marionette Lane or anywhere else, and doing well with them says nothing about real-money gambling.