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Notes from Arden
Kosovo’s Moliere, Jeton Neziraj, Coming to Santa Monica
“At the beginning of rehearsals, the company sent out fake press releases saying that the play was being produced with the full support of the Kosovo government (it wasn’t), then added to the mayhem by announcing that there were only five copies of the script, that they had all been stolen, but the actors had memorized their lines, so all was well. By the time the play was produced, police had been called in to protect the theater, there were bomb threats, audience members took to the stage and shouted that the play was “anti-national” and funded by the Serbs, etc., etc.”
Featured Column
What Now? AEA’s Promulgated Agreement Back in the Spotlight
At the Town Hall coming up, I think I am most interested to hear how Pro99 will respond to the new Equity Website, in particular its sweeping claims that the minimum wage demand will not affect the bottom line of any of the local theater companies, or that the notion of being “allowed” to work three weeks at some under-50-seat stage is somehow equivalent to the fecund cultural scene that is at risk here. –BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Got It Covered
Dakin Matthews, an Equity actor of indisputable professional renown and whose career spans both Equity productions like The Audience on Broadway and 99-seat shows with The Antaeus Company, is perhaps the first union member to step up and take a pin to the bloated shallowness of the “ask if it’s Equity” campaign. In a letter posted to the Pro99 Facebook page, and already widely circulated through the net, Matthews interprets the “Ask if it’s Equity” campaign as the cynical catch-up PR operation it is.
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