UPDATE!
Hey everyone -
I'd like to announce, with great sadness, that I am effectively ending my dream of being a playwright. I've done my best to live in denial, but after reading Outrageous Fortune, the facts are overwhelming. We're irrelevant, poor, and the institutions that were built in order to give the American Theater vibrancy and life have failed. Really, what is it about plays that is so necessary? No one gives a shit anymore. I quit, and you should quit, too.
What? We need more plays about politics? We need another play by a writer about what it means to write? We need more plays about how to have a love life? Someone else needs to reinterpret the Greeks?
Come on, people. There's nothing left. Why try? Why even goddamn try? All I know is that whatever impulse that once pushed me into writing plays was destroyed by the idea that it is very hard to make money at it.
After this one more play, I'm done.
Plays are useless in the age of film and television.
Right or wrong, it's my life and my choice.
I really do thank everyone who supported me and believed in me.
Love to all of you.
Forget what you wanted to be.
Only focus on what is possible.
Only see the world as it is.
Live free of expectation and ambition.
Sorry if that disappoints you all. But it really is the only choice.
BULLSHIT !!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou cannot make a living as a playwright alone-- that's a given. But you can still be a playwright while holding a day job.
Write what you want, dude. Entertain people, educate them. Preach SOCIAL JUSTICE if you're angry about the world. Make 'em laugh if you wanna spread laughter and joy.
Me. I'm gonna be a playwright 'til the day I die
You might be right.
ReplyDeleteI think Freeman's April foolin', especially if he wants us to believe he's come to this decision after reading one study.
ReplyDeleteOh Thank God. I've been waiting for you to give up for YEARS now. Can you, Matt and I finally start one of those online role-playing game groups?
ReplyDeleteAbout freakin' time.
ReplyDeleteWe all know that theatre's just a stepping stone to Hollywood anyway. And none of us are talented or pretty enough to get THERE.
Give it up now, while there's still time to get an MBA and go into banking.
pssshhhhhh April Fool's Day?
ReplyDeleteI HAVE BEEN DECEIVED !!
Wait! If you guys start role-playing, I'll give up theater too! I ONLY DO THEATER SO I CAN MEET OTHER ROLE PLAYING ENTHUSIASTS!!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the party, pal!
ReplyDeleteI may or may not belong to an awesome group of artists and cool peeps who meet weekly in Manhattan to play d&d.
ReplyDeleteWe might even have a members only blog where we journal as our characters.
It's one of my darkest secrets.