Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production
Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032361344 | 353 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032361344 | 353 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
In this book, Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin investigate the question of artmaking, specifically theatrical production, as work. When the art is the work, how do employers navigate the balance between creative freedom and these equitable, accessible, and sustainable personnel processes? Do theatrical production operations value the worker? Through data analyses, worker narratives, and analogues to the evolving gig economy, Theatre Work questions everything about theatrical production work – including our shared history, ways of operating, and assumptions about how theatre is made – and considers what might happen if the American Theatre was reborn in an entirely new form.