Stewart McCure

Writer, performer, management consultant

England

An Australian living in London.  A self-employed training consultant to the global health care industry.  A producer, director and performer of improv comedy.  A trustee of an adult education charity in West London.  A writer and occaisional blogger

 

 

Crimes of Passion

March 06, 2009  /  Stewart McCure

My (first) theatre project of 2009 is now officially under way.

We met as a cast for first time at last Wednesday's rehearsal and it's been an age since I've worked with so many truly talented and genuinely passionate performers. So there's the rub: -

Other people's passions must be treated with the utmost of care
London is full of comedy promoters who understand the ratio of surplus acts to scarce venues to mean that they're doing performers a favour by affording them 'stage-time'. I've written previously about a demand for 'professionalism' amongst unpaid acts. Often this is no more than a byword for an unwritten and inequitable code of conduct between promoter and performer.

So putting on my producer's hat I know what's at stake. I'm not pretending that any of my cast are so delicate of sensibility that mishandling on my part will drive them from the industry. Rather, that they've already signed up to give me their talent, passion and time; which is all I asked for.

And given how I feel about time, the very least I can do is to do my best to never waste theirs.

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tags / Attitude, Beginnings, Collaboration, Comedy, Performing, Scenes from Communal Living, Staying motivated, Theatre