Words of Asbestos

From the ITA website:

It wasn't me! Book tickets.
Author: Always Working ...
Date: 07/10/2008 - 11:40

Publicity is only as good as ticket sales! I haven't been flaming myself - honestly - because I don't see the point unless the discussion encourages people to see the show.

There are two main criticisms (foolishly alluded to by me in my initial post):
1. the writer is hard for ideas.
2. we've paid to use other people's words.

Kate has responded to these criticsims previously but here, again, qucik responses:

1. Kate is an established professional award-winning theatre and television writer. She has current commissions from the Seven Network, two professional Perth theatre companies and a play in development in Melbourne - neither short of ideas or writing experience. And turning the forum into a play has required a lot of writing. See the show and judge for yourself how successful we have been.

2. Legal advice (from a university law faculty, no less) stated that we needed to contract those forum contributors who we could identify and locate to use their intellectual property. There's no contract without an exchange; some people pay a token dollar. We chose to pay more because, as theatre professionals, intellectual property is a large part of our livelihood. We expect people to pay us for our intellectual property; we'd be hypocrites not pay others. See the show and judge whether we paid too much or too little.

The Blue Room and Always Working Artists present
APOCALYPSE PERTH 21 Oct - 8 Nov 2008
The Blue Room Studio. Bookings: (08) 9227 7005
http://www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/apocalypseperth