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Tonight we're striking the fourth show of our five-production season. We're taking approximately $1500 worth of scenery, chopping it into bits, and pitching it, as it's so show-specific that it really can't be used again, and it's constructed in a way to make it very hard to salvage. There's a fair amount of lumber involved here, and a lot of it is lauan, which is still made from rainforests. Every lauan alternative is either too weak, too expensive, or both.
Theatre people tend to also be very green-minded people. My students recycle religiously, and often pick through the trash to find cardboard scraps for the paper recycling bin. It's hard to watch them come to terms with throwing this stuff away, and it's much much harder to explain why we're not going to make an effort to keep it.
Maybe someday we'll get a viable lauan alternative that costs approximately as much as lauan.
I wish I liked theatre.
Theatre people tend to also be very green-minded people. My students recycle religiously, and often pick through the trash to find cardboard scraps for the paper recycling bin. It's hard to watch them come to terms with throwing this stuff away, and it's much much harder to explain why we're not going to make an effort to keep it.
Maybe someday we'll get a viable lauan alternative that costs approximately as much as lauan.
I wish I liked theatre.