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profwyll
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Posted: Mon Jun 12th, 2006 09:56 pm |
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| My most $ucce$$ful scripts have been commercial projects intended for very specific promotional projects. While I support my friends in Equity, not all solid productions of new works get premiered by theaters with Equity contracts for numerous reasons. For one, Equity limits the amount of paid rehearsal time, which can really limit developmental work. I use a Dramatist Guild style contract when necessary though I'm not a member. I consider myself a professional theatre person who writes plays among all the other things I do.
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writergirl
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Posted: Thu Jun 15th, 2006 02:45 pm |
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| I think the term "professionally produced" being linked to Equity is misleading. I live in Chicago and most of our two to three hundred theater companies are non-Equity. Does that mean that the plays produced are not "professional"? Not at all! It just means that our economy is such that not all arts companies can afford to support union wages.
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deepakmorris
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Posted: Thu Jun 15th, 2006 06:24 pm |
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I'm a bit tired of people presuming the USA constitutes the globe.
What is Equity?
It's a body of people in the USA. Does membership in Equity constitute professionalism throughout the world or even throughout the USA?
I say not.
Here's Wikipedia's definition of professional:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional
I see no mention of Equity.
Equity may be an example of a professional body. However, I don't think that that, by any means, signifies that being a professional - or, to be even more specific, being a professional playwright - entails membership in Equity.
Deepak
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writergirl
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Posted: Thu Jun 15th, 2006 06:39 pm |
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You make an excellent point.
I think we'll just all have to remember that terminology and social structure doesn't always apply across the (message) board.
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guilessa
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Posted: Tue Jan 16th, 2007 05:18 am |
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The Equity point just mentioned is very elucidative. As a brazilian playwright I really didn't have a clue what it meant.
I produced two plays in Brazil and they both did ok, especially when performed in cities other than mine (Belo Horizonte). There's probably something going on between me and this local audience here, but since it's generally of no use criticizing the public - or any public for that matters, I decided to always debut somewhere else.
It also has the advantage of avoiding critics that come from people that know me very closely and from those who have already worked with me. A "virgin" audience - that's what I want to say.
Back to the point: what is "professional" depends on many factors and does not always reffer to the same thing, regardless of the Equity remark.
Cheers.
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