Theatre Blog of Darryl Maximilian Robinson

YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IN THE THEATRE, DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON, NOTES HIS REVERENCE FOR OUR US LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES! Long ago, and we're talking the 1960s and 1970s, as a school student growing up on the West Side of Chicago ( a place of poverty and street gangs and frequent outbreaks of violence ), one of safest places to be was in a public school. Even the criminal element in the neighborhood refrained from committing the worst of their offenses on school grounds ( during daytime class hours ) because many of them had their own relatives attending there and they did not want to be seen by their own family members displaying their worst behavior. Another place of safety were the local community churches because perps knew they might need a pastor, a deacon or a church elder to speak at trial for them if a judge wanted to know something about a defendant's character or potential to be safely returned to a neighborhood after serving their sentence. Back in the da...

Your Humble Servant In The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Robinson of The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project, would like to take a moment to address the essential issue of "DAY GIGS"! In a perfect world, a truly talented and gifted performing artist or presenter would have no financial issues or worries of any kind because there would be a relentless and unending stream of show biz job offers and opportunities which would provide SO MUCH WORK FOR THE ARTIST that he or she would never, ever be concerned with obtaining gainful employment outside of their desired or chosen profession. It is therefore important to note that most performers, particularly thespians, do not live in a perfect world. In between acting and directing and writing and designing assignments, most thespians and many film and television industry participants, do have to take an occasional, and sometimes, frequent "Day Gig...