It's amazing how much politics goes into keeping a theatre company alive. And as anyone who knows me is well aware of, when the feces strikes the oscillating wind machine I tend to call things what they are...
Oh, look... It's a spade...
I love the theatre! I really like the current theatre company I'm currently involved in. But because it is not bringing in as much or more money than the last show, talk has turned to limiting it even more than it already is, which is two shows a year, or killing it all together, again.
What needs to be done here is figure out what some of the problems are... Such as putting a show up the week after Easter. (We are housed in a church.)
What the current problems are with how we promote it and some thoughts on how to fix that.
And...
Where do we want to go from here? Do we need an artistic director? What kind of shows should we do? What kind of shows are we going to be allowed to do at the church and how do we keep the costs down, but the quality up?
Worst part of the problem is that we are not the only theatre in town who is going through this, in this economy.
There are no easy answers. The current show we are doing is really good - We have two more weeks to go and I don't see the answers coming to us before the show is over...
Maybe we need more prayer...
Hmm...
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