tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485677035908306929.post8945408304660785278..comments2024-02-10T03:48:46.059-05:00Comments on THE CHARLEBOIS POST - CANADA: creating a/broad, February 8, 2014Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485677035908306929.post-41086577815644289612014-02-12T16:25:50.602-05:002014-02-12T16:25:50.602-05:00What's happened with the Fringe Circuit is jus...What's happened with the Fringe Circuit is just like what happens with animals in the natural world. If a food source is abundant, it'll attract more animals who'll consume from its riches.<br /><br />It's also easy to romanticize what the fringe circuit was like five or ten or fifteen years ago. It's true that it was easier to get into more festivals on a tour then, but not always. An established sketch company (friends of mine) toured from Montreal to Vancouver every year for three years in the early 90s, and in 94 they were accepted into Minneapolis (which debuted as a festival that year), Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver. They self-produced in Montreal and Saskatoon, and skipped Edmonton altogether. <br /><br />Another group I know toured that same year, and wound up deep in the hole. <br /><br />And there were companies that bailed partway through the tour, some of them getting good reviews but tiny houses. <br /><br />The arts are a hard way to make a living - apart from the precious few who make it big. And the shitty projects famous actors commonly do just for the money, I doubt many of them are secure in their position and finances. <br /><br />It's a tough go. Probably always will be. So what can you do? You do what you can. You keep creating. Whether the money's coming in or not. Whether the market's saturated or not. Because the foremost reason to practice any art is to save your soul. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509495867473146695noreply@blogger.com