[SML] Theater Architects

[Bill Conner]

I'm not convinced that providing the sub-optimal experience that results is
good. The lesson may be theatre sucks because I can't hear or see well.
Wouldn't it be better to transport those students to good facilities where
they might learn to respect and even enjoy the activity well supported than
endure it purely supported? There are so many opposites  in terms of
acoustics, sight lines, day light, etc.,  that solving the design problems
to achieve even mediocre results costs more than separate spaces that meet
the individual needs much better.

And why stuff a stage into a hole in the wall of the gym or cafeteria? Take
a lesson fro contemporary churches and put a platform on the long wall so
everyone us closer.

BFI.

Bill

On Sep 24, 2016 7:58 AM, "Dale Farmer via Stagecraft" <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> When you have a small school district with correspondingly small budgets,
> a cafegymatorioum is often a necessary compromise.  Also not a bad choice
> for smaller local elementary schools that feed into a larger regional
> middle and high school.   Like all compromises, it is suboptimal for the
> individual needs, but it can be made to work when everyone settles down and
> makes it happen, and leaves the bickering in the past.
>
>   --Dale
>
>
> On 9/24/2016 8:22 AM, Wild, Larry via Stagecraft wrote:
>
>> Or the cafegymnatorium. There are quite a few of those in South Dakota.
>> Larry Wild
>> Old guy from South Dakota
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net] On Behalf Of
>> Bill Conner via Stagecraft
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>> Subject: Re: [SML] Theater Architects
>>
>> I look at some of these auditoriums and stages designed and constructed
>> without qualified help as future work, because eventually someone will
>> realize it has really major deficiencies and needs renovation.  I see a lot
>> of such high schools on tours with building committees, who like the price
>> point of the new one down the road that is too squat; too wide; equipped
>> with anemic lighting, rigging, and av systems; the entire backstage support
>> area is the sidewalk leading away from the single leaf door onto stage; and
>> there is dead code minimum toilets to assure long lines, especially at the
>> women's room.
>> Forget that significant portions of the audience can't see or hear.
>> Worse, the school is proud of it (well - they hide the music and drama
>> faculty on tours - or they are very young, un-tenured, and new to the
>> school so don't say negative things.)
>>
>> And then we have cafetoriums and gymnatoriums below that.
>>
>> --
>> Bill Conner Fellow of the ASTC
>>
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