Well, I guess this is one of those times that we theater artists decide to "grow up", as it were, and gather our work in an "organized" way, in the hopes that it will breed new opportunities. I have been playing at this "theater game" for awhile now, and it seems as though the rules are forever changing and the politics seem to be spoken in some rare Greenlandic language, but I am not daunted. In every conflict, there is an opportunity. Our friend, the imaginary invalid, known as "live theater", is troubled in this economy, and I am no exception to its illness. State funding has made it that I cannot secure a contract at my current job; it just makes more sense to leave me at a part-time status...but, I can't build on these Greenlandic politics in the isolated province known as Walla Walla, WA, and so...I have set my sites on new opportunities...whatever they may be.
I decided after grad school that I would never be a professor...well, that didn't work out so well, because I promptly became one after I realized that working full-time as a managing director of a contemporary arts center and trying to make work is impossible. I also had decided after grad school that you don't have to work in the regional theater centers in order to be a "good" theater artist; you can take a clue from Moliere and Shakespeare and work the provinces first. Now, I am realizing that it is very easy to become forgettable in the provinces. Eugenio Barba has a concept called the third theater, and I had hoped that I could join this group, but I don't think anyone knows that I want to be in it. So...again, the idea for a website...something to make one's self known in the world outside the provinces.
I decided after grad school that I would never be a professor...well, that didn't work out so well, because I promptly became one after I realized that working full-time as a managing director of a contemporary arts center and trying to make work is impossible. I also had decided after grad school that you don't have to work in the regional theater centers in order to be a "good" theater artist; you can take a clue from Moliere and Shakespeare and work the provinces first. Now, I am realizing that it is very easy to become forgettable in the provinces. Eugenio Barba has a concept called the third theater, and I had hoped that I could join this group, but I don't think anyone knows that I want to be in it. So...again, the idea for a website...something to make one's self known in the world outside the provinces.
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