The theatre my school had wasn't even a theatre until I got there. This room was an event type hall with a 30' wide x 12' high stage on one end. When I arrived the back of the stage was rotted and collapsed and the curtains were dry rotted and tattered. There were also no lights or supports. For the first show I just took down to curtains and used four t-stands with four PAR64s per stand running off DJ style dimmer packs that would trip the rooms ancient fuses every few minutes if we didn't get the perfect combination of outlets. After about a year of tireless work and fighting on my part as a student we got some new curtains, two dead hung battens (one over the stage and one over the audience), and some new electrical work. Since the batten over the stage was attached to a 2x4 spine on the plaster ceiling, we could only put 200lbs on it and the other one was too close to the stage so the lights were practically over the actors heads. In the end, I started bringing in my own equipment (at the time I did a lot of freelance lighting) and I would set up two 30' wide trusses over the audience and, since the schools system had all pars except for 4 S4 jrs, I would bring in some movers and S4s of my own. Eventually I got the school to pay me a little bit as a sort of rental fee for all this gear but I still would have rathered avoid a several day rigging and hanging fest just to get our lights up before each show.