Doom and Gloom
In case you hadn't heard, the economy has gone to pot.
The stock market is in shambles, unemployment is rising, credit is "crunched" and the world appears headed for a significant recession. A few of the darkest prophets of death are almost ready to utter the d-word. No, not deficit: depression.
It won't be long before we begin to hear more and more people make comparisons between the 1930's and the present calamities. Perhaps these claims are overstated or perhaps they are justified - I don't claim to have the head for figures necessary to say with any certainty just how bad the coming months and possibly years will be.
I do know that through all the doom and gloom there will continue to be live theatre. Wherever you can find "two planks and a passion" you will find theatre. So don't despair theatre lovers - the sets may be a little shabbier, the plays a little more obsucre and the venues a little more rudimentary (maybe next summer will see a growth in the number of outdoor productions), but we theatre people are far too addicted to this to ever give it up. We may go hungry, but we will not go away from our theatres.
And you can take that to the bank.
The stock market is in shambles, unemployment is rising, credit is "crunched" and the world appears headed for a significant recession. A few of the darkest prophets of death are almost ready to utter the d-word. No, not deficit: depression.
It won't be long before we begin to hear more and more people make comparisons between the 1930's and the present calamities. Perhaps these claims are overstated or perhaps they are justified - I don't claim to have the head for figures necessary to say with any certainty just how bad the coming months and possibly years will be.
I do know that through all the doom and gloom there will continue to be live theatre. Wherever you can find "two planks and a passion" you will find theatre. So don't despair theatre lovers - the sets may be a little shabbier, the plays a little more obsucre and the venues a little more rudimentary (maybe next summer will see a growth in the number of outdoor productions), but we theatre people are far too addicted to this to ever give it up. We may go hungry, but we will not go away from our theatres.
And you can take that to the bank.
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