Collaboration with Stage Designer

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
204PUPSD credit 2 30 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 28 to 38 hours of self-study English

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Department

Předmět zajišťuje Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre

Contents

The course is based on composing a given space in such a manner so that it gains the characteristics of an organized space, which is homogenous from the aesthetic point of view, has a clear atmosphere and internal dramaturgy. Learning about stage technicalities, the different types of stage equipment, lights (technology) used for developing the artistic

design of a theatre performance. Students are taught the history of stage architecture and its equipment, as well as skills of formulating a task for the stage designer based on the previously elaborated concept of the performance. Objectives: Leading to conscious and free usage of scenographical conventions and techniques by the student that are

used by a professional scenographer. Reading a drama text from the point of view of a scenographer. Discussions with a professional scenographer while working on own script and finding suitable theatrical space for the drama and director’s idea.

Learning outcomes

stage technicalities, the different types of stage equipment, lights (technology) used for developing the artistic design of a theatre performance.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None

Literature

Your Puppetry : with 135 diagrams and 4 full page plates / John Wright.- London: Sylvan Press, 1951.

Oscar G. Brockett and Margaret Mitchell, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and

the United States

A. Racinet - The complete costume history, Taschen, Koln, 2003

L'artmondial de la marionnette = Worldwide art of puppetry : Unima 2000 / com. de red. Marek Waszkiel [et al.] ;

réalisé par Unima.- Bielsko-Biała : Union Internationale de la Marionnette, 2000.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Presence on classes. Credit work in a form of presentation.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans