“There is the distant sound of a string breaking, as if in the sky, a dying, melancholy sound. Silence falls, and the only thing to be heard is a tree being struck by an axe far off in the orchard.”1
Anton Chekhov, Final Stage Direction from The Cherry Orchard
In many small theatre departments and programs, sound is a subject that can easily fall through the cracks due to lack of instructors and the small number of students professing interest in the field. Communication Departments often offer the technical side of sound production through television and radio work, but those experiences seldom have the dramaturgical component found in theatre production – unless, perhaps, the Communication Department ...
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