Theatre’s a hard business. You certainly don’t enter theatre to become rich. It can happen. Like you can be struck by lightning – it’s just rare. Making theatre, especially independent theatre is expensive. When patrons come, they still want a good quality production to compare with the big guns with big budgets, and trust me, as an independent producer – that’s what I want too. I just wish I had the budget. But it is incredible how much we are able to do on the smell of an oily rag.
Before we would hold fundraising nights and hope we could get people through the door or hit up businesses for sponsorship. Sometimes both would work, and then sometimes they would fail miserably. That’s why the rising popularity of crowd funding has been a true God send. It gives us an opportunity to have our friends, family, neighbours, work collegues, peers or just some random off the street, the opportunity to help fund the work we love so much. Even better is that people are able to donate whatever they can afford, with donations as little as $1 permitted, or of course a massive donation – if that’s what your heart desires.
So here I stand, hat in hand, asking if you are able to help my latest theatrical endeavour, “Hell Hath No Fury” – opening at Revolt in Melbourne in November. The play is a 16 women extravaganza set in a hairdressing salon. We are planning on building a realistic hairdressing salon on stage, equipped everything, including a sink (just not the kitchen one). It’ll hopefully be so good you can literally get your hair cut there.
We have a page at the moment with Pozible, a great site helping so many people. We have a total of $1700 we’re going for (we need to raise that money for any donations to be processed). After 2 days, we have basically raised $200, so a lot more money still needs to be pledged.
The link is www.pozible.com/hellhathnofury - please help us out and keep independent theatre a strong and viable art form. And plus, I’ll think you’re pretty tops!
Wayne
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