THTR 1020 Chapter : DIRECTING Theatre
Document Summary
Directing: envisioning play as physical reality, uniting ensemble, coaching actors, orchestrating action. Fuctions of directing: acting training, collaborators, auteur*-guy or girl who writes and directs their own work/film/play, performance text, designer. Choosing a text: idealistic- director must be passionate, if not it will show, passion, time, passion from your collaborators, practical, personnel, audiences, resources. Concept: directors vision of the play based on the text, highlights theme-visual concept highlights the theme, spine, stylistic, high/low concept. Rehearsals: blocking, movement, organic, stage pictures- establishing relationships based on where people are standing in the stage at that time, focus, stage business. Directing history: actor-managers, pageant masters, johann wolfgang von goethe, georg the 2nd, duke of saxe-meiningen, gesamtkunstwerk-first to have an orchestra pit, and to dim the lights! Neoclassicism: 17th century france, tennis courts, neoclassicism, french academy, aristotle"s unities, the cid controversy continued, jean baptiste moliere, comedies of manners, tartuffe -a play, the boulevard. "hernani" he also wrote hunchback of motte dame.
