Ten Quid cancelled

Seems to me the Am and pro-am theatre groups in WA still need to learn that players generally want to get involved with well known proven audience pullers rather than risk working for weeks on material that will not draw decent houses as after all it is audience appreciation that provides the players "payment". The State theatre many years ago under Edgar Medcalfe put on popular plays (generally comedies) that the punters wanted and played to full houses. Along came Aarne Neeme who insisted on putting on plays that "the public should see not what they wanted to see" and plunged the company to the brink from which to this day it hasn't recovered. Experimental theatre needs a venue much like La Mama in Melbourne, a tiny place that wasn't all that difficult to fill with friends and relations who sadly are about all the people that really want to spend money on an unknown product. I agree that Community theatre groups often try to mount too many productions and too complex productions for both the on and off stage talent available with a resultant fall in quality. Lose a punter due to poor quality and you have a devil of a job to lure them back. Put on fewer but better quality offerings and carefully target your audience....GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!!