Work on Stage 1

Tutor:

Jan NEBESKÝ, Daria ULLRICHOVÁ

Synopsis:

The class focuses on practical verification of knowledge and skills gained and especially on developing the ability to motivate actors' actions, work with space including the ability to work with placement and movement of actors in space. Through mutual cooperation on production tasks by students in the fields of directing, dramaturgy, acting and possibly stage design, the common denominator is in particular the developing of the actor/director playing out of the dramatic situation.

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

1. Ability to read and interpret a text and create a dramaturgical/directing conception

2. Ability to analyze a dramatic situation and motivation for action of dramatic characters

3. Ability to lead and motivate actors when the director and actors play out a situation

4. Ability to create and organize dramatic space

5. Ability to perform scenic stylization and alienization

6. Ability to express the meaning of a dramatic situation in time and space through mise en scene

7. Ability to coordinate and control all elements of creative productions and their harmonizing into a unified, thematicized whole

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Analysis of the text and staging intent

2. The situation and creating dramatic space

3. Movement and position in space

4. Given circumstances and motivation of action

5. Relations of characters and playing out the dramatic situation

6. Creating mise en scene and barriers to action

7. Fabulation and composing the production as a whole

Syllabus:

Based on analysis of the text and the staging intent arising from it, students proceed to identifying individual situations and collectively creating dramatic space. They become familiar in practice with the possibilities for expression of mutual relations by thematicized movement and position in space. An integral component is work with given circumstances and practical verification of motivation for action. The main content is playing out and developing of the dramatic situation by the director and actors and the creation of a corresponding mise en scene. At the end of the semester, the students arrive at a whole production that is deliberately composed and thematicized.An integral component of the class is reflection on the results achieved.

Study materials:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	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 K101 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) NEBESKÝ J. 15:00–18:00 (přednášková par. 1) místnost K333 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) NEBESKÝ J. 15:00–18:00 (přednášková par. 2)
Fri	místnost K101 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) NEBESKÝ J. 15:00–18:00 (přednášková par. 1) místnost K333 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) NEBESKÝ J. 15:00–18:00 (přednášková par. 2)
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský herectví ČD (main subject)