Library Services, Equipment and Rehearsal/Performance Space

 

Library Services

The School of Theatre has established a departmental library with a diverse media collection, including: 8,500 Chinese-language books, 1,200 foreign-language books, 910 Chinese-language periodicals, and 80 foreign-language periodicals.  

 

Equipment

The School of Theatre Arts has a black-box experimental theatre space, professional lighting and sound equipment, audiovisual rooms, several rehearsal rooms, and a small workshop for building sets and props.  In addition, the school’s performance hall has a set-building workshop, a scenic painting workshop, a props shop, as well as a costume shop.  These spaces are all on offer to students as resources for their academic and professional learning.

 

In addition, we currently have these additional facilities available to faculty and students:

 

Audiovisual Software Equipment

Single beam projector, slide projector, digital video recorder, DVD player.

Softward

Qlab 5, Isadora for production.

 

Sound Equipment

Sound mixing amplifier, sound boards, speakers, performance speakers, mini-performance speakers, DAT,  wireless microphones, one set of wired walkie-talkies, various wires and lines.

 

Lighting Equipment

ETC lighting instruments, Fresnel spotlights, Par lighting instruments, and Leko lighting instruments.  In addition, the school also has dimmers, light boards, and a number of lines and wires.

 

Small Set and Props Workshop

Angle cutting machine, air compressor, as well as all types of common workshop tools.

 

Traditional Performance Props and Weapons

Staves, clubs, bolos, knives and blades, horsewhips, swords, cymbals, puppet opera practice set, simple puppet opera stage

 

Rehearsal and Performance Space

Aside from the resources listed above, the school also has audiovisual classrooms, many rehearsal rooms, and general-purpose classrooms available for educational purposes.