Basics to Stage Technology - Course 1

Tutor:

Josef MADĚRA

Synopsis:

Familiarisation with the theatre?s personnel and technical structure.

Prerequisites:

Interest in the profession.

Study Objectives:

Familiarise 1st year ALD department students with the entire breadth of stage technology and with all aspects of a theatre?s operations (personal and technical). Emphasis is placed on the fact that technology and personnel as a whole must contribute to producing the best possible rehearsals and final result for the production.

Outline and Syllabus:

Theoretical instruction:

- Personnel structure of the theatre.

Familiarisation with all professional personnel in the theatre; its hierarchy, professional arrangement and relations between individual workers and the workplace. Emphasis is placed on stage technoology elements. A detailed explanation of the functions of all a theatre?s employees, from the director, artistic head, stage master to the stage technican.

- Stable stage equipment.

Familiarisation with all firmly installed tehnical elements of the stage and audiorium used to serve the performance; their relationship to individual stage technology employees. Detailed description of this equipment?s functions.

- Portable stage equipment.

Familiarisation with all technical requisites, instruments and simple portable mechanisation on the stage and in the auditorium. Their function in building the theatre?s decoration and its operation during rehearsals and performances. Detailed explanation of the functions and possibilities of this equipment, relationship to stage technology employees and other persons moving in the theatre environment.

Practical instruction:

- Visit and inspection of a puppet theatre with explanation.

- Visit and inspection of a large classical theatre with explanation.

Study materials:

Topical professional press.

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
Thu	místnost R213 Učebna () 09:00–10:30 (paralelka 1)
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 herectví ALD (compulsory subject)
• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ALD (compulsory subject)
• Doporučený bakalářský scénografie ALD (compulsory subject)