Thinking about reasons that the system exists and thrives...
- Keep theatre alive
- Services many actors
- Create new works
- Address community concerns
- Promote excellence
- Create community
- Develop artistic relationships
- Learn new techniques
- Keep historic plays alive
- Maintain cultural standards
- Low-cost ticket option
- Development of leadership skills
- Efficiency of production
- Low investment artistry/creativity
- Personal exposure
- Chance to gain skills
- Promote cultural/ethnic ideas
- Emotional release - audience
- Proliferation of new Plays
- New Formats/genres
| - Integration of new media
- Substitute family
- Raising the bar on ideas
- Raising the bar on performance
- Continuity of experience
- Competition as prompt
- Ground for cultural experimentation
- Immediate reaction (late nite)
- Pure Entertainment
- Lowering the bar as provocation
- Developing new directors
- Experimenting with sound
- Space for rehearsal
- Development of companies
- Early/Late careers
- Develop confidence with repetition
- Exercise in collaboration
- Economic platform
- City glue
- Legitimize union presence
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