GrayeKnight
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Well, we don't have any black velour curtains, we have a plaster backdrop and an upstage traveller (~3 feet from upstage wall) which we use. The schools singing competition wanted to paint the backdrop black and write on it with gold letters, and my wonderful tech teacher said that would be a great idea! And let them do it.
Technically, although i call it a theatre, it is an auditorium. No fly system, and we have to fight to make our shows look the way they do.
As far as the playwriting thing goes, its something that is getting on my nerves to no end, and one of the main reasons why I'm ready to get out of my high school at the end of this year. My tech theatre teacher is a community director in my area, and also teaches one or two theatre classes at my school. Another student and I know more than he does about tech, because she worked in a professional theatre last summer. We end up teaching our class, and also perform maintenance on our space since the mechanics in our district don't maintain it. Although he knows basic things because he is a director and has worked in the industry, he does not teach tech. He makes an appearance at the beginning and end of class, and on days when he teaches we do theatre games, theatre playwriting activities, and other stuff like that.
His "supervisor", the head theatre teacher, and him are best friends so since our administration generally avoids the fine arts department nothing is being done about his position.
I have no words for what happens in this fine arts department. It's aggravating to no end.
Another funny story: After two work orders and a year, the district maintenance people came out to our auditorium to change our houselights (over half of them were burned out) and after they walked in they informed me that the lights were, and i quote, "too high up for them to change". And they left the box of lightbulbs for us. Needless to say, i ended up changing all 30+ lightbulbs with a telescoping light bulb changer and these crazy new things called ladders, which our maintenance people apparently didn't know existed.
Technically, although i call it a theatre, it is an auditorium. No fly system, and we have to fight to make our shows look the way they do.
As far as the playwriting thing goes, its something that is getting on my nerves to no end, and one of the main reasons why I'm ready to get out of my high school at the end of this year. My tech theatre teacher is a community director in my area, and also teaches one or two theatre classes at my school. Another student and I know more than he does about tech, because she worked in a professional theatre last summer. We end up teaching our class, and also perform maintenance on our space since the mechanics in our district don't maintain it. Although he knows basic things because he is a director and has worked in the industry, he does not teach tech. He makes an appearance at the beginning and end of class, and on days when he teaches we do theatre games, theatre playwriting activities, and other stuff like that.
His "supervisor", the head theatre teacher, and him are best friends so since our administration generally avoids the fine arts department nothing is being done about his position.
I have no words for what happens in this fine arts department. It's aggravating to no end.
Another funny story: After two work orders and a year, the district maintenance people came out to our auditorium to change our houselights (over half of them were burned out) and after they walked in they informed me that the lights were, and i quote, "too high up for them to change". And they left the box of lightbulbs for us. Needless to say, i ended up changing all 30+ lightbulbs with a telescoping light bulb changer and these crazy new things called ladders, which our maintenance people apparently didn't know existed.
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