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Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Theatregoers to be petitioned outside Australian venues amid ongoing actors’ pay dispute
Culture | The Guardian: Theatregoers can expect to be leafletted by union delegates outside Australian performance venues in the new year, in a campaign to lift the pay of about 6,000 actors and dancers.
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Jessica Williams
said...
This is possibly the worst idea that has been okayed in a long long time from the perspective of management in theaters. It is simultaneously one of the funniest ideas to actually be put into practice seriously. The topic of how much an actor is paid is not something that the vast majority of theatregoers know anything about. I think it is a good concept to get the people who spend money at a business to put pressure on the business owner to pay their workers better but theatre is a bit different. Theatre is an incredibly niche industry with incredibly niche problems and solutions. So it is a bit hard to petition someone who knows very little about how the industry is actually run to make a declarative statement on how it should be run and petition the people who actually run it. I think it is a nice thought but that it will likely not be successful in the way that people think. I think it will definitely raise awareness of the issue but I guess whether or not this plan makes things change will be seen.
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This is possibly the worst idea that has been okayed in a long long time from the perspective of management in theaters. It is simultaneously one of the funniest ideas to actually be put into practice seriously. The topic of how much an actor is paid is not something that the vast majority of theatregoers know anything about. I think it is a good concept to get the people who spend money at a business to put pressure on the business owner to pay their workers better but theatre is a bit different. Theatre is an incredibly niche industry with incredibly niche problems and solutions. So it is a bit hard to petition someone who knows very little about how the industry is actually run to make a declarative statement on how it should be run and petition the people who actually run it. I think it is a nice thought but that it will likely not be successful in the way that people think. I think it will definitely raise awareness of the issue but I guess whether or not this plan makes things change will be seen.
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