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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Political Theatre: Revisiting Joe Orton's LOOT

Breaking Character: The past few years have illuminated a din of hot-button political and social issues and we, as theatre producers and creators, are clamoring for ways to shed light on them. We want our productions to speak to these issues, to contribute to the conversations happening, and perhaps, to provide some new perspective to our audiences.

But, a potential barrier to entry is that, outwardly, political theatre doesn’t always break records at the box office. We’ve got to keep the lights on and often rely on commercial, well-known works to sell tickets.

3 comments:

JeCksOn said...

Great topic to be discussed and you have a great job by putting light on this topic and I hope and wish you all a very good luck that soon this problem get resolved.

Mattox S. Reed said...

I totally agree with this article. The world is desperately in need of political theatre now more then ever and it's not really something that I believe audiences are ready to jump right into. Loot provides a great stepping stone and performance for audiences and theaters to get back into political theatre as the theatre becomes a more and more important facet of how the people should formulate their opinion.

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