Directing 4

Tutor:

Ivan RAJMONT

Synopsis:

Orchestrating different elements, specifics of directorial talent. Spatial fantasy. Managing actors, the rehearsal process. Team collaboration. Self-reflection on own creative work.

Prerequisites:

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

Study Objectives:

Senior MA program teacher - as selected 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 requirements for directorial work.

2. The theatre director; 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 way of thinking.

6. Time and rhythm.

7. Detail and the whole.

8. Editing and montage.

9. Working with the actor. Situation. The character and the 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 uniformity 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 cretive method governed by improvisation.

Study materials:

1. Peter Brook - Empty Space

2. Peter Brook Pohyblivý bod

3. Zdeněk Hořínek Divadlo jako hra

4. Jaroslav Vostrý - Directing is an Art

5. Vsevolod Mejerchold Reconstructing the Theatre

6. Josef Kovalčuk Authorial Theatre

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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 dramaturgie ALD (optional subject)