Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A Change of Scene
Theatre Communications Group: "Several years ago I attended one of those weekend exhibitions affectionately known to stage designers as the Clambake—produced and organized by Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy, and now unfortunately defunct—devoted to showcasing the portfolios of graduating Master of Fine Arts designers from certain selected programs in an effort to introduce them to the professional world. The overall finish of their work, I noticed, was extraordinarily high—much higher than portfolios of my generation—and with few exceptions almost all of the design work in these portfolios was for theatre or opera.
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This article is very interesting. It mostly focuses on graduate work, but it makes me wonder if getting a degree in design for undergrad is worth it, and I agree with what he says. If the program (I think in some ways like CMU's) is teaching you how to think of a story and about things that are not in educational theaters (i.e. unions, contracts, ECT...) then I think that it is valuable. It does seem like a viscous cycle but I think that what the author is trying to say ultimately is that if you get a degree in theater you should be able to use it in other capacities. We should think about how we do theater, not the ultimate product. If we go about it in that way we are making a process and not just a creation.
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