This
is a letter sent by email to the department chair of the Theatre Arts
department of my college. I recall that I received no reply. My success was
never a goal of that department. They felt that the thousands of dollars I was
paying wasn't reason enough for me to be looked after.
They
were still willing to take my money, but at no point did they say that I didn’t
belong or wasn’t good enough. The opportunities to practice my art simply never
came my way.
By
the time I dropped the Theatre major I had a good number of reasons to do so. I
was angry and felt cheated. When I tried to talk to people within the
department they treated me as if I was worthless and refused to hear a word I
said.
You
tell me, was it right for a state funded school to ignore this letter?
12th of May 2008
Subject:
ALD and other stuff
Dear
(Department Chair),
At
this point, I’m not opposed to doing anything light related. I have two years
left at (State College), but as I will be taking advanced sound next spring my
last year will likely have more to do with that side of design.
I’m
still shaky on the Vector Works stuff, but I’m improving.
I
have presently planned a 15 unit semester involving three days a week without (the
2 unit lab class) so I can take two sections of it, but I only need one more to
put towards my degree. I’m always angry when there are units that I’m paying
for and not taking, but the situation is what it is.
I’d
also like to know who I should talk to about what the department is looking for
in terms of plays. Like I said, one of my full-length plays is a 25 character
monster and might suit the needs of the department once I clean it a bit. I had
planned to write three full-length pieces of theatre in playwriting
last semester and only failed to do so because I was refused in-class readings.
I did turn in more than one hundred pages of never before viewed work. I know I
can write to the needs of the department. I can’t promise that the plays will
be good, and I know the likelihood of the school putting them on is still very
small, but if I don’t try then I have no one to blame but myself.
“Nothing
left but trying cept’in lying down and dying” Charles Dickens
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