Thanks for the clarification. :-) That helps.
I'll put together a few things relating to set design and construction (my field) over the next few days for you, but, in the meantime, here are a couple of items.
First is Robert Edmond Jones' The Dramatic Imagination, which is available through Amazon. If someone died and made me king, this would be required reading for anyone in any area of live theatre. It's a short book (you can read it in one or two evenings), and gets right to the point of what theatre is. It was written in 1941, but it's as fresh today as it was back then. It's the one book I've kept going back to, over and over, for over thirty years.
Second, and I'm still hoping to find such a thing, would be a book or article about what tech theatre really is. It's not about building flats or hanging lights or setting up mikes -- it's about supporting the story that this huge team, which we're all on, has put together to present to an audience. As a die-hard techie back in college, I often forgot that (as did some of my classmates), and I still see it all the time nowadays. Sometimes it's like the tech people feel like they're doing their jobs, but that it has nothing to do with the show itself. And it's really sad to see it.
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George F. Ledo
Set designer
www.setdesignandtech.wordpress.comwww.georgefledo.net
Original Message:
Sent: 04-19-2016 18:22
From: Russell Saxton
Subject: Tech Theatre
Hi everyone.
Thanks to those who have begun to reply to my post. My presentation is for high school theatre/drama teachers. I will be teaching a two hour workshop class. My topic is " Designing and Implementing a tech theatre/ stage craft (it means the same thing in Utah)" class for teachers in secondary ed." I hoping I can compile, with your help, a semesters worth of resources to assist teachers in teaching units on: safety, tools, set design, lighting design, costume designs, sound design, etc. on a high school level. Ultimately, I want to send teachers home with a flash drive of resources they can use in their classroom. I'm looking for "anything" that might assist a technical theatre teacher in the classroom - hard copy documents, web sites, books, etc.
Thank you for your help gathering materials.
Russ