Stage Design Propaedeutic 2

Tutor:

Jan NEBESKÝ

Synopsis:

This class combines exercises with a seminar that familiarizes students of directing, dramaturgy, stage design and theory and criticism with the basics of the stage „from the inside“. Again in the second semester, terms are arrived at through induction, specifically with the help of staging scenes from finished texts with students themselves doing the staging.

Prerequisites:

Creative participation in a production of at least one excerpt from the chosen text, the playing out of which on stage amounts to the development of its dramatic potential („internal theme“).

Study Objectives:

The goal of the class is conscious development (cultivation) of the stage sense of directors, dramaturges, theorists and critics with respect to discovering the (dramatic) potential of a text based on the example of a chosen scene/situation that they play out in time and space (i.e. production interpretation), with the use of the individual (basic) components of stage expression and their representatives in mutual dialogue.

Outline and Syllabus:

The 2nd semester goes from choosing scenes/situations from finished (classic and contemporary) texts to their specific interpretation (i.e. interpretation leading to discovering their staging/dramatic possibilities with definite actors in a definite directing/stage design environment) and their playing out in time and space. This playing out is again for development of the students' stage sense, including dramatic feel as its other aspect. It is the gradual realization of this connection (staging and the dramatic) that allows the composing of the appropriate scene/situation not only from its visual aspect and „internal feel“, but also in the connection of the level based on senses with the level of potential sense (the „internal theme“). Each student contributes towards the fulfilment of the chosen task according to the chosen specialization, leading in the case of directing, stage design and dramaturgy, in which the participating theorists also take part, to the creating of a staged image relating to the (overall) „opinion“ by a controllable external check; that „external“ viewpoint, of course, is supplemented by a view point „from within“, enlivened by an appropriate degree of empathy and also directly developed by participation in the „acting“ part of creation (but this is not required). Any going beyond the narrowly defined limits given by the specialized role, naturally attained during mutual dialogue about the whole, contributes towards the further developemtn of feel for teamwork, not only with respect to the specialization in question, but also for individual creative potential and natural authority.

Study materials:

Otakar Zich: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1986

Michail Čechov: O herecké technice, Praha 1996

Also see literature for the Creative Writing course

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost K222 Učebna () NEBESKÝ J. 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ČD (main subject)