Stage Design Propaedeutic 2

Tutor:

Jan NEBESKÝ

Synopsis:

The subject, combining exercises with a seminar, familiarizes directing, dramaturgy, stage design, theory and criticism students with the foundations of stagecraft „from within“. Again in the 2nd semester, terms are arrived at by induction by realizing scenes from finished texts with the students doing their own production.

Prerequisites:

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

Study Objectives:

The goal of the class is conscious development (cultivation) of the stage design feel of directors, dramaturges, stage designers, theoriticians and critics with respect to discovering the (dramatic) possibilities of a text using the example of a chosen scene-situation that they play out in time and space (i.e. a produced interpretation) with the participation of individual (basic) components of stage expression and their representatives in mutual dialogue.

Outline and Syllabus:

The second semester proceeds from selection of scenes/situation from finished (classical and contemporary) texts to their specific interpretation (i.e. interpretation leading to discovery of their stage/dramatic possibilities with certain actors in a certain directing/stage design environment) to their playing out in time and space. This playing out again involves students' developed stage sense including as a second aspect their dramatic feel. It is this gradually realized connection (the stage and the dramatic) that alllows the conception of the scene/situation not only visually and with respect to „inner feel“, but also in the combination of the senorially based level with the level of potential sense (internal theme). Each student contributes to performing the chosen task from the viewpoint of a chosen specialization leading in the case of directing, stage design and dramaturgy, also with the participation of theorists, to the creating of a staged scene relating to an overall „opinion“ that can be checked by inspection „from the outside“; this view from the outside is supplemented, however, by a view „from within“ enlivened by an appropriate degree of empathy and developed by the participation in creation as actors (which, however, is not mandatory). Any exceeding of narrowly defined limits given by a specialized role, naturally attained during mutual dialogue about the whole, contributes to the further development of feel for teamwork, not only with respect to the relevant specialization, but also for individual creative possibilities and naturally applied authority.

Study materials:

Otakar Zich: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1986

Michail Čechov: O herecké technice, Praha 1996

Also see the literature for the Creative Writing course

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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 K222 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský scénografie (compulsory subject)