I am ANGRY!!! I have been silent for over a month but now sheer ANGERMENT is all I feel!!! Guess what - I got my MFA, right - but NOT EVEN A HINT OF A OFFER OF A JOB!!! Who does the Arts meant to be if it's not for me and my kindred?!! I offer probably the finest and most passionate PRAXIS of anyone heretoforthwith and I am IGNORED!!! I spoke at length to Col this morning and he says "slowly slowly catchee monkey" but what use are nursery rhymes in this TIME OF CRISIS FOR THE ARTS!!! I mean - seriously - if Shaun Spock can't find a job, what hope is there for Theatre in general???
I offer up this suggestion:
1) All MFA courses to have GUARANTEED artistic directorships attached upon gradualisation
2) The Government to WAKE UP TO THE IMPORTANTNESS OF THE ARTS ONCE AND FOR ALL - I mean, the Arts isn't just health or education or national security - it's the MORAL PLACENTA THAT NOURISHES ALL THE LIMBS OF THE BODY CORPOREALATE!!!
3) Immediate investment of MONEY for all the Arts
We need ninety days to achieve this - no more, no less. I second the motion.
- Shaun Spock MFA
P.S. Mark Ravenbald has quite rightly condemned new writing. As he so correctly says: "All new writing is very bad for the theatre and should be banned. Except my own plays because they are at least a week old and about important issues like drugs and fucking, but everything else should be banned." I heartily concur and convex... Thankyou, Mark, for raising this important issue.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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