Ms Karan O'Loughlin:

Precarity does not lead to creativity. That is a myth that has been perpetrated for the purposes of neoliberalism for the past 30, 40 or 50 years. There was a time when theatre companies and film studios hired all their people and they worked on a full-time basis, even the actors. There were full-time representatives in all the theatres. Studios signed up actors on contracts to make a given number of films over five or ten years, and it was the same with crew. They hired their crews who worked on the studio lot on all of the projects that were going on there. The idea that precarity leads to creativity is a myth that has been perpetrated for a long time. It is just not true.