[SML] more theatre design thoughts...

[Stephen Rees]

Hear, hear, Greg and Bill. Too true.
Steve Rees

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Bill Conner via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> > While I've had to deal with many odd school performance spaces, if the
> > space is sufficiently bad to detract from the students'
> > appreciation/interest in the arts, there are larger problems with the
> > program that cannot likely be addressed by a better/newer facility.
> >
> > --
> > [Greg Bennett]
>
> I have trouble imagining that a program change will overcome
> unintelligible speech, dry music, poor sight lines, and dim, flat
> visuals.  Students participating is a different issue but for the
> majority of students whose only exposure to live performing arts in a
> rural community, it seems pretty detrimental.
>
> At the end of the day, it's about performing artists telling a story
> through word, music, and movement to an audience and seeing and
> hearing are essential to that communication.  All the loading docks,
> wing space, systems and equipment, and so on can't counter a bad
> auditorium and stage relationship.
>
> --
> Bill Conner Fellow of the ASTC
>
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