Why is community theatre so bitchy?

You must be from down here David?If not - try most country regions, where there is only one theatre in town/city/It gets worse!Don't think this only occurs in Community Theatre - it goes with the badge in proffessional Company Theatre as well - except, if you dont, you have no rights (other than that of employment) so your only recourse is to evaporate! Unlike Community Theatre, if you are a member, your have as much as anyone else - you can stand on your milk crate and tell them, the only thing they can try and do is take away your membership if you found guilty of "actions unbecoming a member" - Ask Mandurah they tried this twice with the same member and fell on their own swords - idiots!Welcome to the Theatre, where murder is sweetly done!Joe McCabe> Why is there so much politics and bitchiness behind the scenes?> You can deny it all you want and go on about the camaraderie, of which> there can be, but I know of people who are no longer involved in theatre> because of this sort of rubbish, driven underground, too scared to> audition, too scared to even go see a show because of some of the> carry-ons of the past, preferring to avoid these people instead. It's> not just one theatre, it happens at them all.