High School: trials & tribulations

[Shakspeares suck]

I'm in High School and I could not find any forum dedicated to the struggles of being involved in a High School Theatre, what with minimum budget and a lot of bsing. so i thought i would create this forum as a refuge for high schoolers to ask their questions and for other high schoolers to answer them with what theyve done. feel free to ask about anything, not just lighting

BATEMAN

[soundlight]

Topics about this are all over the place. They usually end up in the most relevant forum to the complaints, or the punching bag.

Oh, and the BS only gets worse.

[Shakspeares suck]

oh ok, well still if high schoolers wanna come here they still can

[Clifford]

You can join the CB User Created Group for HS techs here.

[derekleffew]

This thread is being moved to the Student Feedback forum. We also use that area for students looking for college recommendations.

[Shakspeares suck]

ok thats cool thank you, haha i might need some college recs soon anyhow

[ishboo]

Im going to be a junior next fall at my high school. Our high school program use to be pretty mediocre but last year thankfully a levy was passed and our school built a brand new theatre that seats 1,200 which offers great experience to a high schooler. Unfortunately we got bottom of the line equipment like our lehigh light board that crashed 11 times during tech for our musical but we are working really hard to get it off the ground and we've done some really cool stuff with it. I'd be curious to learn about other high school theatre programs.

[Shakspeares suck]

well my theatre program is incredible, not to toot my own horn, however the only reason for this is the fact that our director whips the actors into shape, we have very low tech equipment and our theatre is poorly built we have a consistant white noise bc the amps are too close to our monitors its bad

[summerstagetech]

my high school sucks! during the summer i go to a program called summer stage. they do everything and they will teach you anything. if any one lives in the philladelphia they should go to upper darby pac summer stage.

[Mullet1215]

High school is the place you learn how to do everything the cheap way. anywhere you can pinch a penny you will. I learned to make gels out of all the scrap pieces of gel, cut pie plate gobos, make coffe can tophats, black wrap barn doors and so much more. The big advantage in this is it teaches you how to solve any problem that may come along.