[SML] Stairs from audience to stage

[Dave Vick]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM Bill Conner via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> The problems associated  with a thrust or arena stage with stairs a part of
> the stage makes my head spin trying to reconcile it with accessibility - for
> performers or audience.  The few I've been involved with, the stairs were
> not permanent, and then it's simply up to the users, not the building
> designers, to not discriminate on the basis of disabilities.

In the case of our little thrust stage, access for those with most
disabilities is via backstage. The stairways would be - and have been
- a challenge for patrons and performers with "mild" mobility
challenges (however you define "mild?"), and totally out of the
question for those who need crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs. How the
University got that one by the ADA's mid-1980s predecessors is totally
beyond the cognative powers of my tiny little pea-brain.

-DV
(i'm an evil demon but my duties are largely ceremonial)