But like who LETS them?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @fiddlersgreen92
There is a distinction between "student plays" that are done entirely by students as a student activity (with campus funding that comes out of the same budget for other student activities) and ones that are done by students for the theatre department for course credit
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The latter are taken much more seriously and funded to a higher level It's like the distinction between club sports and varsity sports
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92
Ohhhhhhhh Yeah, that makes much more sense
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @fiddlersgreen92
One reason it's so much easier to get plays put on as a college student is that the single most expensive part of the budget for a play, renting a space, is taken care of They already have an auditorium for the theatre department that you can use whenever they don't need it
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But, like, the theatre department's needs obviously take precedence and everything else you might need that they don't let you piggyback on the theatre department for they don't fund very much
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Again, like how playing rugby as a club sport means you get to borrow the football field in the off season but you have to buy your own stuff and hire your own coach and fight for funding with the student activities fund every year
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Anyway When I was in college the student "drama board" made a big deal about how they were "totally independent" and unlike other schools didn't even have a faculty advisor Everything is done with the college's institutional *consent* but that's different from *approval*
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It's like a student newspaper or whatever, in principle The club goes through a bureaucratic process to get funding from the school every year and students who want to do a show go through their own bureaucratic process to get approved by other students
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Anyway as an example UMich is a school known for theater so they have multiple student-run theater societies Starkid originated in Basement Arts, a board founded to fund indie, experimental stuff (100% student-written and directed shows)
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So named because they tended to be lowest priority when getting their pick of performance and rehearsal spaces
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