The Theatre City That Works
Posted on | December 1, 2008 | No Comments
On the occasion of Chicago’s first snowfall (and, perhaps, apropos of questions I raised last week) comes a bit of perspective from my sister Julie, now 4 years into indentured servitude to the media lords of LA:
She sees a relationship between the tough-it-out mentality that gets Chicagoans through the winters in the Windy City and the make-it-work, never-say-die mentality of our theatre-makers- and suggests the effects on the artist are lasting ones:
“Once you’ve dug out a friend’s borrowed car with a cut-open milk jug, in order to drive an hour to audition for a part that – if you get it – will pay you maybe $100 – that leaves a mark. It’s why you don’t see theatre companies out here made up of life-long West-Coast actors staying up to 4am painting sets and making press packets.”
photo by Emily Barney – used under Creative Commons license
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