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Thursday, December 24, 2020
Theatre As Commodity: Saving Our Industry By Undoing Our Worst Mistake
Bitter Gertrude: Theatre is a shared artistic experience, both in its creation process and in its performance. In human history this shared artistic experience has been framed in a multitude of ways — as ritual, as religious observance, as entertainment, as propaganda, as resistance. And while it has been — and will continue to be — all these things in modern America, what it is primarily for us is a commodity. Framing theatre as a commodity is at the root of every major problem we have.
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