It is still named Dramatic Arts, but it doesn't look like the spaces, equipment and classrooms of 50 years ago when Brock's Dramatic Arts started and we were there.
Funny to say there was a brand new theatre for the students back then - Thistle Theatre. Now it is the new Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts facility in downtown St. Catharines.
We toured the facilities yesterday - "four rehearsal and performance studios (two with lighting grids, one with production booth, one with adjacent wet lab), a scenography studio, coach/scene work room, the new Marilyn I. Walker Theatre: a flexible 285-seat venue with adjacent green and dressing rooms, scene shop, costume shop, production lighting and sound shops. DART courses are also taught in the venues of the adjacent FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre."
The differences reminded me of the song "School Days" with its reference to the basic education and the method of teaching:
School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days 'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick
We were the hippie generation - we experienced an informality that was unprecedented. Yesterday I got present to this difference. There was 'business' in all aspects of university functioning with things very much managed and controlled - quite a different control than the hickory stick.
The picture today is taken in one of the video spaces.
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