Alan Harrison once performed for months for a mere $20 pay. Here he argues for arts organisations to provide the labour and wage protections artists fear seeking for themselves.
'Dario Fo’s 'We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!' is a contemporary Marxist farce. In the play, the cost of living is high and growing. Wages are stagnant. Minimum wage pays for nothing. So a proletariat homemaker joins a mob of other proletariat homemakers and collectively they loot and pillage the local market out of frustration, and with glee.
Not that that could happen. After all, the paperback of the play is $264.50 on Amazon (shipping is free!).
Here’s why I want you to think about it.
In LA, in 2015, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the labor union for American actors and stage managers in the theater, tried to do away with a 99-seat theater system colloquially known as the “Equity Waiver.” As a young pup in the market back in the day, I performed in several plays and musicals in theaters that sat 99 or fewer, and I was paid with thanks, pats on the back and empty promises in lieu of money.' ... Keep reading on The Clyde Fitch Report
'Dario Fo’s 'We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!' is a contemporary Marxist farce. In the play, the cost of living is high and growing. Wages are stagnant. Minimum wage pays for nothing. So a proletariat homemaker joins a mob of other proletariat homemakers and collectively they loot and pillage the local market out of frustration, and with glee.
Not that that could happen. After all, the paperback of the play is $264.50 on Amazon (shipping is free!).
Here’s why I want you to think about it.
In LA, in 2015, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the labor union for American actors and stage managers in the theater, tried to do away with a 99-seat theater system colloquially known as the “Equity Waiver.” As a young pup in the market back in the day, I performed in several plays and musicals in theaters that sat 99 or fewer, and I was paid with thanks, pats on the back and empty promises in lieu of money.' ... Keep reading on The Clyde Fitch Report