Poverty Ain't Cute: The Need to Erase Poverty Consciousness from the Theatre

Join The Verb GymThe theatre life has constantly been synonymous with poverty. The struggling, starving artist is romanticized and held up as someone who is not motivated by money and therefore doesn't need any ... but this mindset has a cost.I argue that the stories we tell ourselves in the theatre will continue to keep us suffering. We are storytellers for goodness sake ...... let's change the narrative!