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Tue, 2 Sept 2008, 09:08 pm

David Ashton22 posts in thread

I had a call-out today to a new school theatre, less than a year old.The house lighting system is too complex for the staff to work and no manual. The step lights have been glued in, some are already dead. There are electric winches on all 6 bars. There is no ladder, one is supposed to focus lights by raising and lowering bars till you get them all right. Having spent all this money on bells and whistles they could only afford 20 parcans 6 fresnels and 4 cyc lights and the parcans are open backed single insulated- for kids? No profiles. So a million dollars on [my guess] we have a non functional teaching venue. This is a state school paid for by tax-payers. How do they get away with it?

Never hang up that

Sun, 28 Sept 2008, 02:39 pm

JoeMc

Never hang up that attitude, even if you do - don't forget where you left it listerofsmeg!

as taureen posted 'we who have nothing'.

'Gymeatres' & 'Theatoriums' [coined by Hywell] seems to be what educators & arcytechs have been allowed to germinate in their collective ideas of an ideal performing spaces - we are going thru this drama at present, to the verge of my final & sixth stoke yesterday. I need to have a pressurestat fitted in my ear & wear a hard hat with a flashing red strobe on top!

With less than 6 days we need to turn the empty hall, into a theatre venue of sorts?

It will happen as it always does, though it May not be what we were assured to expect or I had envisioned for the 'BIG IDEA' production, but it will happen. Even with the words of my son ringing in my ears, "And at the next stroke, it will be ___________.

Thread (22 posts)

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bloody architects— David Ashton2 Sept 2008

re BLOODY ARCHITECTS— Jim C2 Sept 2008
I worked in the BMW Edge— Na3 Sept 2008
I agree, early this year i— The Lighting Prince3 Sept 2008
Perhaps it's not so much— Na3 Sept 2008
Like the old slaying goes,— Robert Whyte4 Sept 2008
- Wor war Stories!— JoeMc4 Sept 2008
  - refurbished Old mill— Jim C4 Sept 2008
- Camelus dromedarius— JoeMc4 Sept 2008
Refurbished Old Mill— Norma4 Sept 2008
On consultants, etc...— mtearle8 Sept 2008
The principal and teachers— David Ashton13 Sept 2008
- That is ridiculous. How can— jeffhansen13 Sept 2008
Smoke and Mirrors— Taurean14 Sept 2008
- "We have nothing, do— Na14 Sept 2008
- "WE WHO HAVE NOTHING!"— JoeMc14 Sept 2008
HMMM— Logos14 Sept 2008
- Phoenix gets the cue 'GO'!— JoeMc27 Sept 2008
  - HOENIX @ The Naked Chook Pen!— JoeMc29 Sept 2008
    - "CHOOK PEN - SAGA— JoeMc2 Oct 2008
School Therters...— listerofsmeg28 Sept 2008
- Never hang up that— JoeMc28 Sept 2008

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