I’m good at theatre, and I hate it. Does that mean I’m actually bad at theatre?<\/p>\n
I’ve spent 20 years of my life learning my craft, and now that I’m capable of creating at a high level all I do is compromise. Compromise does not feel like collaboration. My choices are to become a dictator asshole director, or to simply succumb to the pressures of external egos and make lesser art. Maybe theatre, despite my protestations, IS lesser art, because it resists the auteur? And to what end? To cater to the egos of the beautiful, the charismatic, and the capitalist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m good at theatre, and I hate it. Does that mean I’m actually bad at theatre? I’ve spent 20 years of my life learning my craft, and now that I’m capable of creating at a high level all I do is compromise. Compromise does not feel like collaboration. 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