Acts of defiance: the theatre fights back
Gerard Lee in The Pleasureometer by Jack Harte
Emer O'Kelly
Artists are resilient: they have to be, and never more than now. Probably what differentiates the dilettante from the true artist is that a real artist HAS to make art: the imperative comes from within, not from the rattle of the payment. That compulsion has always left artists trailing - and never more than now.
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