This year, I entered my sophomore year of high school as my first year in a 10-12 school. Technical theatre is offered as a class at the school that I chose to take later because currently it is being taught out of portable as the campus is under construction. That has came back to bite because now I am not able to participate at level in the theatre program because I am not in the class. It works the same way for actors too, they have to be taking a drama class (which due to scheduling you aren't ensured entrance to the class) to even audition for any role in a play or muscial; except for the fall production, it consists of 10 people that were casted over the summer, essentially people returning from previous years, no one new.
This has me and other people I know irked because my junior high had a 7th/8th drama class that everyone took unless they became a TA or took a music class and a 9th grade advanced class. We normally produced two shows a year, one mainly composed of the advanced class with some the techs (like me) coming from outside the class because the director knew us and our abilities. The other show was open to for the school to try out for being on cast or crew. I joined on in 7th grade as a followspot opeartor and worked my way up to doing lighting design and using a Strand Palette by my Freshman year. Other people took the same route such as being an assistant props master and later becoming an assistant stage manager.
I and other people feel that the way that the way this is being ran is unfair compared to other programs like sports where you try out to be on the team or for zero period band where if you can play an instruement you can get in. I have become somewhat frustrated over this and looking for some help on how to deal with this.
This has me and other people I know irked because my junior high had a 7th/8th drama class that everyone took unless they became a TA or took a music class and a 9th grade advanced class. We normally produced two shows a year, one mainly composed of the advanced class with some the techs (like me) coming from outside the class because the director knew us and our abilities. The other show was open to for the school to try out for being on cast or crew. I joined on in 7th grade as a followspot opeartor and worked my way up to doing lighting design and using a Strand Palette by my Freshman year. Other people took the same route such as being an assistant props master and later becoming an assistant stage manager.
I and other people feel that the way that the way this is being ran is unfair compared to other programs like sports where you try out to be on the team or for zero period band where if you can play an instruement you can get in. I have become somewhat frustrated over this and looking for some help on how to deal with this.