First Working Phases of Stage Directing

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
204PUSDF exam 2 28 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 29 to 39 hours of self-study English

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Předmět zajišťuje Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre

Contents

Students will learn about the preparatory stages of stage directing and how to write a synopsis, prepare their own concept. Things that a director have to consider: puppetry techniques, space, fine arts styles, etc. The aim that the students can determine the focus of their directing. Analyzing the common experiences puppet show. After that, every student will build up their own synopsis. This is a freely chosen work from a specific author.

Learning outcomes

Students will learn about the preparatory stages of stage directing and how to write a synopsis, prepare their own concept. Things that a director have to consider: puppetry techniques, space, fine arts styles, etc.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None

Literature

Helen Fling Marionettes: How to Make and Work Them. Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1973

Thomas A. Kelly: The Back Stage Guide To Stage Management, Watson-Guptill Publ., New York, 1991

Bernard Beckerman and Gloria Brim Beckerman and William Coco: Theatrical presentation: performer audience and act, Routledge, New York, 1990

Edward Gordon Craig: On the art of the theatre, Heinemann Theatre Arts Books, New York, 1980

Peter Brook: There are no secrets: thoughts on acting and theatre, Methuen Drama, London, 1993

Edward Braun: The director and the stage: from naturalism to Grotowski, Methuen, London, 1982

Peter Brook: The shifting point: forty years of theatrical exploration 1946-1987, Methuen, London, 1988

Arthur Holmber: The theatre of Robert Wilson, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004

Lise-Lone Marker: Ingmar Bergman: four decades in the theater, Cambridge University Press, 1982

Shomit Mitter: Systems of rehearsal : Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London- New York, 1992

Kenneth M. Cameron: The enjoyment of theatre, 2. ed. New York ; London : Macmillan & Co., 1989

James Roose-Evans: Experimental theatre from Stanislavsky to today, Rev. ed. London : Studio Vista, Cassel PLC, 1973

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