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The amateur group using my theatre this week have hired a technician to design, rig and operate their lighting. The director is planning to pay her £150 for what I estimate to be 40+ hours of work and neglected to tell her either how long or how late these hours would run. Yesterday she said “At...
UPDATE: I saw the program and two blokes who weren't there got credit for the work she did.
Work evenings and weekends for a poverty wage; spend your entire shift on your feet traipsing across a Pepsi soaked carpet; stay late waiting for geeks to finish watching the post-credit scenes; eventually come to associate the smell of popcorn with your own certain mortality... YOUR TICKET TO... A GLITTERING CAREER! There's no business like showbusiness.
The amateur group using my theatre this week have hired a technician to design, rig and operate their lighting. The director is planning to pay her £150 for what I estimate to be 40+ hours of work and neglected to tell her either how long or how late these hours would run. Yesterday she said "At first I don't think he was planning to pay me at all."
While anyone whose politics owe anything to the tradition of the labour movement should be, on principle, appalled by this, realistically this kind of compromise between non-professional producers and inexperienced freelancers (she graduated last month) is what keeps both afloat. It could be said that she was naive for accepting but in truth no one with that little industry experience could afford to turn down a paid design credit. The fact that the pay is low becomes a secondary concern to the fact that this is a professional engagement adding the credence and legitimacy of a professional credit to a fledging portfolio.
This is the freelance world I will be returned to if and when I am made redundant from my salaried position as a venue technician. Last weekend I worked back to back shifts of more than 12 hours each, sleeping for three hours between them at the back of the auditorium seating.
There's no business like show business.
Successful Labour Party policy launch
#TaxJustice #SocialResponsibility #Religion #Property #SocialOrder
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream [x]
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That was masterfully done, props to the actors.
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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House Un-American Activities Committee; December 1938
CONGRESSMAN STARNES: I want to quote finally from your article “A Theater Is Born,” on page 915 of the Theatre Arts Monthly, edition of November 1931. ... “The power of these theaters springing up everywhere throughout the country lies in the fact that they know what they want. Their purpose—restricted, some will call it, though it is open to question whether any theater which attempts to create a class culture can be called restricted—is clear. This is important because there are only two theaters which wants to make money; the other is the workers‘ theater which wants to make a new social order. The workers’ theaters are neither infirm nor divided in purpose. Unlike any art form existing in America today, the workers' theaters intend to shape the life of this country, socially, politically, and industrially. They intend to remake a social structure without the help of money—and this ambition alone invests their undertaking with a certain Marlowesque madness.” You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?
An authentic email we just received:
Good morning,
I am an employer based in […] and have advertised 3 jobs on Universal Jobmatch this week. After 5 days we had 804 applications for 1 of our jobs.
My problem lies with the fact that this job is for 7.5 hours per week and is a cleaning role....
"I have argued that lesbian and gay identities and communities are historically created as a result of a process of capitalist development that has spanned many generations. A corollary of this argument is that we are not a fixed social minority composed for all time of a certain percentage of the population. There are more of us than one hundred years ago, more of us than forty years ago. And there may very well be more gay men and lesbians in the future. Claims made by gays and nongays that sexual orientation is fixed at an early age, that large numbers of visible gay men and lesbians in society, the media, and the schools will have no influence on the sexual identities of the young, are wrong. Capitalism has created the material conditions for homosexual desire to express itself as the central component of some individuals' lives; now our political movements are changing consciousness, creating the ideological conditions that make it easier for people to make that choice.
To be sure, this argument confirms the worst fears and most rabid rhetoric of our political opponents. But our response must be to challenge the underlying belief that homosexual relations are bad, a poor second choice. We must not slip into the opportunistic defense that society need not worry about tolerating us, since only homosexuals become homosexuals."
John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (1983)
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You cannot be bought, but the lightning Which strikes the house, also Cannot be bought. You hold to what you said. But what did you say? You are honest, you say your opinion. Which opinion? You are brave. Against whom? You are wise. For…
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