I just left working on a very compelling Off Broadway play, in which the actors are not being paid. Why? Precisely because they are American actors and, the producers have no respect for them whatsoever.
They have opened a production in Warsaw of their show with great success, and a budget:
This is the most publicity I”ll give them:
The Respected Treatment and the How Little Can We Pay treatment
It is precisely the fact that we American actors are “a dime a dozen” (some things never need to adjust for inflation!) that the producers behave in the manner they do. The American cast is remarkably talented, but treated like fools. When one actor had to leave the show, the producer actually gave permission to him to place the show on his resume. As you can see by the space, they are working in a caberet, with typical shit lighting in the house - the slide show is the actual star of the show as evidenced by the highly distracting placement - onstage….. This show is not about anti-semitism in contemporary Poland, but about the playwirght. and, that is the worst type of show of all. It should be poitned out, that I was uncermoniously replaced after bringing up the fact, that I was not informed that the light/sound system had been taken care of and I also being replaced as of today until around12:30 this morning via an email. I should also like to point out, the the producers tried to not pay me by asking me to apartment sit their firetrap of an apartment. Gee, kids, thanks, but, no. I don’t work for free, and frankly I was going to be paying you for the “privelege” by paying your house bills.
To the cast, thank you for the run.
