Re: RAT Re dramaturgy

["Bottom's Dream" <bottomsdream@linkline.com>]

> From: MFarkash@aol.com
> Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:33:55 EST
> To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject: RAT Re dramaturgy
> 
> (You realize that most playwrights, at least in Los Angeles, even if
> produced many times, have to have a survival job.)


 I feel this,
 is a broad statement and deserves clarification. Clearly I can name more
than a bunch of playwrights in this city who have no need to accept a
"survival job" and those that are "produced many times" also deserves
clarification. produced many times where? maybe I even disagree with you
there. The playwrights I know in Los Angeles who have been produced
regularly, work as playwrights or as writers for other media as well. They
write. teach maybe. Computers.
Survival jobs is a phrase that I find misleading. In a sense it's not fair
and slightly demeaning.
We all need survival jobs in a sense. Why would a theatre artist be any
different? The trick is to find one that keeps you going until your survival
job is the job of surviving well.