Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Parabasis: The Fringe Is Very Strange:

Add to that, the deal one signs (if it has not been changed by now) is truly a bad one. You have to put up five hundred bucks (in the beginning it was three, I think) you produce it yourself (pay for rehearsal, props, anything) and you don't get to choose your venue, your performance time or date, and often you get a bare hour or less to tech (according to friends who've been in) ... and on top of that, you give away 2% of the subsidiary rights to your work ... you PAY for them to take a chunk of your works future earnings. That's a bad deal.

Bad deal for the artist. Good deal for the Fringe, they risk ... NOTHING. They stand to gain much.