Directing 9

Tutor:

Karel MAKONJ

Synopsis:

Realisation of personal projects outside DISK, their reflection and consultation on other projects and preparation of material for diploma work.

Prerequisites:

Creativity and reflection, ability to analyse and synthesise, ability to communicate.

Study Objectives:

Senior MA program - teacher as chosen by the student

1. Basics of theatre direction.

2. Directing from the perspective of genre variety.

3. The general alphabet of a director; alphabet of a director in the sense of an authorial position and statement.

4. Working with the production team and ultimate theatrical synthesis. General idea.

5. Working with the actor

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

1. Basic pre-requisites for directorial work.

2. The director in theatre; musical, artistic and physical theatre, focusing on alternative and puppet theatre.

3. Textual analysis. Personal vision of the world and a personal statement on the world.

4. Theme and story.

5. Integrational mode of thinking.

6. Time and rhythm.

7. Detail and the whole.

8. Editing and montage.

9. Working with the actor. Situation. The character and actor?s personality.

10. Improvisational method.

11. Specific production practice.

Syllabus:

Direction in synthetic and authorial theatre.

Contemporary direction has access to all possibilities of expression; it is open and seeks unity in quantity. It develops a principle of theatre with its own eyes and speaks to the present in a dialectic. We see everything from our own creative method governed by improvisation.

Study materials:

1. Peter Brook Prázdný prostor

2. Peter Brook Pohyblivý bod

3. Zdeněk Hořínek Divadlo jako hra

4. Jaroslav Vostrý Režie je umění

5. Vsevolod Mejerchold Rekonstrukce divadla

6. Josef Kovalčuk Autorské divadlo

Note:

Schedule for winter 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
Fri	místnost R210 Učebna () MAKONJ K. 11:30–12:30 (paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský režie ALD (main subject)