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Friday, March 25, 2011
Supply is Not Going to Decrease (So It’s Time to Think About Curating)
Art Works: "I’ve been waiting for a while to respond to the controversy that erupted after Rocco Landesman’s comments on #supplydemand in the arts at Arena Stage in January. (Createquity’s previous coverage, provided by Aaron Andersen, is here.) Most of the very thought-provoking commentary in the interim has taken issue in one way or another either with the notion that demand cannot increase, or the appropriateness of the supply/demand construct altogether. Now that the dust has settled a bit, I want to propose a slightly different way of thinking about the situation.
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This is a very compelling article that made many valid points. We do not work in supply and demand world. People do theater for free! I know that we treat it as a job and career but there are more people spending 30 hrs. a week doing community theater for no pay than there are people making money in the industry.
Consequently, the market is over saturated in two ways, there is a lot of BAD theater out there, and there is some wonderful theater out there. Each week I read right here on Greenpage about 3 local productions that I feel would be worth seeing but my time constraints prevent that
If I was to make a point here it would be that working in theater is a luxury and doing it well is a prerequisite. Any one who makes a living doing what they love should count themselves very fortunate.
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