Thursday, April 15, 2010
Theater Curriculum Based On Professional Entrepreneurial Model
TACT: "In the desire to provide students with the biggest and most up to date means of production, undergraduate and graduate theater programs hinder students from exploring the entrepreneurial work that is required when working in small theater spaces, with limited resources and budget. Therefore, when Bergman was asked to create the theater curriculum for North Park University, he looked to the model he had been working close with, the Chicago Storefront Theatre."
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This article talks about how our theater education is restrictive, but i do not agree with how far it goes in redefining that. Yes, it is important that we learn how to produce our own work. And I absolutely agree that our education does not necessarily teach us the flexibility needed to work with these smaller, nontraditional spaces. But those are only a small part of what we as theater artists will be doing. The more classical forms will let us develop our skills, and then the occasional foray into a new space lets us stretch those skills. Every year, there is a unique production that allows certain skills to be tested. This is enough.
I feel like this article has a lot of valid points in its core, yes artists shouldn't sell themselves as one dimensional products with limited capabilities, same goes for directors and designers but you don't necessarily even have to limit yourself to being knowledgeable within the realm of theater and a storefront class sounds like a really limiting means of expanding your skill sets. This class also reminds me a lot of our storefront class waffle shop because it integrates multiple skill sets into the production of the waffle shop as a functioning store, talk show, etc. I just think that actors, designers, directors alike in any good theater program already know or have been exposed to work in other fields of drama, and why should students stop there?
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