Re: RAT Theater as Art Form/Party/Parade vs. Theater as Small Business

[Cat Hebert <virtualdrama@juno.com>]

In college we had a guest instructor for a week -- by the name of Walter
Kerr. The two things I actually remember about that visit was that he
said "beware of playwrights with three names" and "the performing arts is
a nastier business than the garment trade" -- and he went into quite a
bit of detail on the second one.

Cheers,
Cat


> "Theater provides a service which is similar in many ways to a 
> massage.
> The customer goes into a semi-darkened room; has an experience which 
> may
> or may not feel good; pays and leaves with no visible sign (except 
> a
> receipt/program)."
> 
> 
> "In many theaters this relationship is strikingly similar to the
> plantation owner / migrant worker relationship. The workers are 
> desperate
> to get jobs and owners, who control a limited number of jobs, seek 
> to
> hire workers as inexpensively as possible."
> 
> aren't these creepy crawly images, cat. your massage sounds 
> something like a 
> cheap fuck.
> 
> love,
> dennis
> 
> 
> 
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