Re: RAT Marx in Soho (in LA) << Melissa Hillman >>

["Megan Monaghan" <MeganM@pwcenter.org>]

If playwrights and other artists choose to donate their work, that's cool by me.  As a producer and director, my standard is that if one person gets paid, everybody gets paid.

One can indeed often get good acting, good material and good direction for very little money, or no money at all.  As we all know, it's not as easy -- and sometimes downright impossible -- to get good design and *execute* that design, or to create a good, safe audience experience in sufficient physical comfort that the people attending can get what the company is trying so hard to give them.

Megan Monaghan
The Playwrights' Center, and elsewhere


>>> MFarkash@aol.com 05/09/01 12:00PM >>>
Suggestions? It's very simple. Unless it's a Broadway or an Equity 
production, lower ticket costs to roughly the price of a move or under. And 
offer discount nights, for word-of-mouth.   Also, eliminate sets and don't 
pay artists or offer stipends to playwrights. You'll find tons of good 
material out there from emerging playwrights who are willing to forego fees 
for a production.

Also, read Grotowski's "Towards A Poor Theatre."

Theater at the BCT level (non-Equity) ought not to be about money -- just 
good acting, good material, good direction.

More than $10 a ticket, I (and many other theatre people) will pass.



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