Robert Fritz
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5/4/2020
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Robert Fritz
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I once had a theatre student who was paralyzed from the waist down --- she was outgoing, but not interested in acting onstage but was more interested in the technical side of theatre, specifically as a prop master. For our class and club productions, she was required to do all of the things a properties chief is expected to do, but she could not physically access our prop storage area, which was on the second floor of our auditorium. To help her with the inventory of our upstairs storage area, another student was assigned to take pictures with the student's cell phone of each prop area and to create a map of the overall storage area. The stagecraft students and I created a wheelchair-accessible prop storage area backstage for her to use during our productions. Another student was her assistant properties chief and was responsible for moving and storing the props my student couldn't handle. |