Theatre After Oil

Hello fellow theatre folk. James Howard Kunstler writes about our mishandlings of the natural world wrote Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society, which was published on Truthout.org. I'm not gonna print the whole thing, just number 7, which speaks to us:

7. The age of canned entertainment is coming to and end. It was fun for a while. We liked "Citizen Kane" and the Beatles. But we're going to have to make our own music and our own drama down the road. We're going to need playhouses and live performance halls. We're going to need violin and banjo players and playwrights and scenery-makers, and singers. We'll need theater managers and stage-hands. The Internet is not going to save canned entertainment. The Internet will not work so well if the electricity is on the fritz half the time (or more).

BTW, the above prognostication is a result of the elimination of cars and highways and the restoration of locally-based economies. And for the record, I agree with his vision of the future, but I think the path to get there will be bloody as mass migrations ensue and people go to war over potable water.