Block Education I. 2

Tutor:

Petr PROKOP

Synopsis:

- learning the basic rules of personnel politics and salary/wage and commissions politics in the theatre

- learning the basic rules for creating a dramaturgic plan+form of the dramaturgic plan

- production beginning

- verifying the ability to work with the given materials

- verifying the ability for an independent presentation on the assigned theme and the ability to respond to questions which ensue on the theme in discussion

Prerequisites:

- participation in the course (min. 70%)

- completion written homework (cca 4 pages)

- oral exam: analysis of written work + discussion

Study Objectives:

The subject's aim is to acquaint the student with the basic rules of personnel, salary/wage and commission procedure in the theatre, to compose dramaturgic plans, to learn the procedures in a production's formulation. To verify the students' ability to acquire and then process information obtained in an internal analysis of a given theatrical issue.

Outline and Syllabus:

Students learn the basic personnel, salary/wage and commisions procedure in theatres and especially the specifics applied in theatres. With students individual seminars will be used to analyse assigned themes, apply their reflections to problems which come up in the seminars. As part of the instruction each seminar will end with a practical task where students prove a deeper ability to acquire internal information on a given issue and their subsequent reflections and comparison of their experience.

An 80% participation is required at seminars, processing of assigned tasks and passing the examination.

Personnel procedure

- the theatre profession and its specifications

- types of work activities performed in the theatre

The Labour Code and its application in the theatre

- types of labour-law relations

-origin, alteration and termination of an employment relationship

- employment contracts (pertinent details)

- work remit

- employment period and relaxation period

- uneven staggering of the employment period

- vacation (holiday)

- limit of the employment period

- employment accidents

- agreements on work performed outside the employment relationship

- Salary/wage and commisions procedure

- inclusion of artistic employees and others in a system of tariff salaries

- motivation elements-moveable elements of a salary

- salary compensations

- surcharges (night work, interrupted shifts, work on bank holidays, weekends)

Composing a dramaturgic plan

- artistic viewpoints

- financial conditions

- personnel conditions

- operation/production conditions

- specific conditions

- internal/external conditions

Origin of a production

- production consultation

- transfer consultation

- production consultation

- examination process

- technical examinations

- main and general examinations

- first night

Budget for the beginning of a production

- commissions for production workers, guest actors

- costs for the staging (scene, costumes, props)

- author royalties

promotion (press, photos, advertising, inserts)

Study materials:

valid legislation of the Czech Republic, in particular

the Labour Code

1/1992 Coll., as amended

143/1992 Coll., as amended

and literature interpreting these regulations

samples of internal legal norms for theatres

the script of Bedřich Gregorini „Realising a dramatic plan in the theatre“

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
Fri	místnost R311 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) PROKOP P. 15:00–16:30 (přednášková par. 1)
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský produkce (subject determining qualification)