The New York Times: The play was announced: “Tiny Beautiful Things,” an improbably moving stage adaptation of a wildly popular advice column. Four actors were chosen: members of a company that had worked together for years. And the producer, Dallas Theater Center, had developed a 45-page plan to keep the actors safe, in part by filming and streaming their work, with no live audience.
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Although it is definitely not the right decision for theatres to open right now, it is very angering that the union has not come up with new and innovative ways to create theatre or even given their members permission to take part in the new ways to make theatre. Now is definitely not the time to be opening any theatre to the public but we should be considering alternative performance methods or at the very least consider allowing some rehearsals to take place so when it is safe for theatres to open we can open immediately. I also think that it is not very fair for the union to have some of the terms they have in their contract. For example, they must have a ventilation system that is better than a hospital which I think is quite ridiculous. Once a lot of the population has been vaccinated, we should be looking at opening theatres to the public and today we should be looking at starting the rehearsal process.
I have a huge proponent of COVID safety and doing things in a safe responsible manner for everyone involved. However, from what I have been reading it seems as Equity has been hugely uncooperative in finding and developing safe ways for their members to work. It seems to me that their demands seem quite extreme and they are unwilling to work and compromise. Furthermore, it seems as if they are unwilling to develop new solutions or otherways that theater can happen this year. I think that as a union they should be supporting and helping their members not hindering them. I think a big conversation needs to happen in the union about ways their members could be safely employed in the profession they want to work in. I hope that in the coming year with vaccines and stuff some improvements can be made so that theater will be able to progress in some capacity.
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