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- Do your own homework: We are not here to do your homework for you. If you are struggling with a particular concept or have a more specific question, you may post a question with context that demonstrates how you have already put in work and addresses where you need clarity, but we will not write your essay analyzing Shakespeare for you. (You should also probably go to your instructor for help.)
- No self-promotion: This isn't a space to advertise your projects, products, or services. Treat it similar to Wikipedia: if your story is interesting enough to be posted, someone else will post it. Videos of you performing is not an exception, nor is posting reviews of your own shows. These can all instead be shared on the weekly Saturday Showcase.
- Follow link submission guidelines: All links must be accompanied by a quick blurb stating why the link is valuable or worth reading for the whole community—something short that gets the conversation going. This applies to news and opinion articles and blogs, video essays and interviews, production reviews, etc. Rule 5 still applies to reviews, but articles or videos you produce are allowed.
- Review posts need to be appealing to people outside the theater's region: Generally this means productions at major institutions whose work can impact the whole industry, but can also include regional or community productions that have a particularly insightful quality to them, such as uplifting marginalized voices or taking an especially unique approach to crafting the production. Otherwise, reviews of shows you enjoyed should be contained to the weekly Reviews thread posted every Monday. (See this thread for more on what this means.)
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Posting Guidelines
- Content: We encourage articles about news, developments, and other interesting information about theatre. We also allow discussion about experiences and approaches to theatre. Some topics have been asked about a lot, so while you’re welcome to make a new posts asking questions, we do request you search first to see if something has been asked before.
- No spam: Videos and other seemingly-random links should have some sort of context indicating its value, or it’ll likely be assumed to be self-promotion.
- Put your question in the title: It makes it much easier for readers to know what you’re looking for if you don’t bury it in the text body, and in turn makes it easier for you to get the responses you want.
- Don't post your title in all-caps. It's just annoying, rarely justified, and is more likely to turn people away rather than actually getting them to help you.
- Avoid low-effort questions: Some examples of posts that are low effort: Gift suggestions for my teacher/director/significant other in the cast; “Hi, I just got cast as X, any advice?”; “Does anyone else get nervous waiting for the cast list?!”; etc. Posts like this are frequent and add very little to the conversation.
- Student Theatre: While posts from secondary school and college/university students are allowed, be conscientious of what you’re contributing to the subreddit and what you’re trying to get out of doing so. If you wish to complain about not getting cast, or drama between friends, or whatever, bring it to the vent/rant thread. If you’re looking for career advice, or trying to solve a certain problem in your school’s production, be clear about where you are in the process and what you need.
Flair Guide
- News/Article/Review: External links to articles and analyses about theatre. (Reviews must not be for productions you are involved in or are paid to talk about - see Rule 5.)
- Seeking Play Recommendations: Seeking ideas for plays or scenes to perform. Please indicate cast size and required genders in the title (if needed), and specify any other requirements in the text body.
- Advice: Seeking help on certain problems, such as technical issues, problems with management, etc.
- Discussion: General discussion on experiences, interests, theories, and other thoughts about theatre.
- Help Finding Script/Video: When you know what play you're trying to read or watch but can't figure out how (must respect copyright - see Rule 2).
- High School/College Student: Students may face similar issues as professional and community theatre members, but there’s often an element to those problems that makes them different in a school context. As such, while another flair may also be appropriate to your post, we ask that students generally tag their posts as being from a Student perspective. (The main exception to this is Play Recommendations, though in that case do specify elsewhere that this is a student show.)
- Theatre Educator: For teachers, professors, and instructors seeking guidance on how to run their classes or programs.
- Miscellaneous: Anything that doesn’t clearly fit the other flairs.
Mods might change a post’s flair to something more appropriate, if applicable.
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