How do you balance working for a living and making theatre?
- Convenor:
- Kayleigh Cottam (onethousandladders Theatre Company)
- Attendees:
- Jennie Sear – Sharp Ugly Theatre Victoria Gaunt – Sharp Ugly Theatre Eillen McCarthy – New Macho Performance Oluwatoyin Odunsi – The Drum Moqapi Selassie – Tikur Anbessa Kaz Luckins – Freelance Actress
- Description:
How do you balance working for a living and making theatre? And then bridging the gap in making theatre for a living?
Creating a physical presence - networking with existing local theatre companies.
Platform events to show your work to audiences and other theatre makers.
Persistence, time and patience to allow your work to develop.
Funding or do you rely on revenue from ticket sales – but you are then faced with the fact you are a new company that may not have the ‘familiarity factor’ – risky – if no-one knows who you are who will come and the see the show?
Do you fund it yourself/ can you fund it yourself?
Balancing part time work with making theatre in the early stages?
How do you make sure that a constant influx of new work and young creative’s are coming through in West Midlands theatre?
Challenges faced by new creative’s – knowing how to get work seen? Funding?
1 comment on this issue so far...
On Tue 15 December 2009 at 11:30 pm James Yarker said…
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It’s a harsh environment but there are also many schemes and people looking to help and support you. Surely the mix is of grafting like crazy, doing it part time, making shows dirt cheap, building a reputation, generating some box office and some fees, gaining some funding, building it up. It probably should be a bit Darwinian.
By coming to events like this and asking these questions you’re already doing the right thing, meeting people, putting your faces about Etc.
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