Northwestern Student Theatre

Just an interesting thought of tech week curfews, in response to your comment, Jesse, about getting everything done. I think that's a totally fair point. There are plenty of times in which a show feels like it will not get done without some serious overtime from involved people. I don't really offer any alternatives to that existing as it does based on the current setup of the system. That system being load in all day Sunday, every designer trying to do all of their work in 4 days and 3 nights and actors and directors needing precious time in the space.

I do think there is hope though! One of the goals of the reduction of the StuCo season was to alleviate the strain on designers and those unbelievably dedicated people who find themselves pilled up with 5 back to back tech weeks. So maybe, next year, there will be a few more hands around every team to make some of that work go more quickly. As for other solutions? I'd say most of them would sound rather unappealing (not that they aren't possible): longer times in the spaces meaning less shows so teams can have longer, less tech heavy shows, fewer shows period, etc. Notice those are the same unpleasant answers to a lot of the other difficult questions.