making theatre "mainstream"...

not a cause. We certainly live in a culture where we prefer to get our experience vicariously, witness all the various "fly on the wall" stuff that is being created and fed to us. I actually respect some of the people who do this except of course most of them are doing it in order to achieve instant fame without doing the hard work. Wouldn't we all love it. Getting back to Abbz's original point. I remember when I was at Uni in the eighties I found a monograph that suggested that during periods of depression in society it is art that suffers. People want to be entertained at levels that require less intellectual involvement so the low comedies and bright musical stuff and populist pub style entertainment will do well in those periods. We certainly seem to be in one of those periods now. Terrorism, rising prices, environmental concerns and the issues we have been speaking about in various other threads all add to the burden we face every day. We just want to be entertained. For god's sake I watched that silly celebrity singing thing last night and quite enjoyed it although I probably won't bother again. Any way. Diatribe over for now.