THTR 1020 Chapter : Directing And Putting It Together
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Directing: the director, designers present their designs, director approves, actor work out characterization, director guides them, types of directing. Director"s job is done once the show opens. No changes are made after the show opens: the vision. Putting it together: organizing theatres, theatres in the u. s. are organized by, amateur, volunteers- actors are unpaid, community theatres, ex. Theatre of baton rouge: professional, pay the staff/artists, equity actors, ex. Swine palace on campus: for profit, money raised by producers from investors, return on investment, profit made, plays run until interest is lost and no money is being made, ex. Broadway: not-for profit, run by a board of directors, profit goes back to the organization, tends to have seasonal plays, ex. Theatre of baton rouge: combos, amateur companies can be nfp"s, professional companies can be nfp"s, professional companies can be for profits, administrative team, producer- sometimes the producers is all of these, depending on the size of the theatre.
