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Directing 3

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Course unit code:
201REZ3
Course unit title:
Directing 3
Mode of delivery:
zkouška
Range:
4/T
Type of course unit:
compulsory subject
Level of course unit:
Year of study
2nd year
Semester when the course unit is delivered
zimní
Number of ECTS credits allocated:
4
Garant předmětu:
Juraj DEÁK
Name of lecturer(s):
Juraj DEÁK
Study Objectives:

1. The ability to read and interpret a text and create a dramaturgic-directorial concept.

2. The ability to analyse a dramatic situation and the motivation for the behaviour of dramatic figures.

3. The ability to lead and motivate actors in a warm-up of the situation between director and actor.

4. The ability to create and organise a dramatic space.

5. The ability for scenic stylisation and diversification.

6. The ability for time-space expression of the sense of a dramatic situation using mis-en-scenes.

7. The ability to coordinate and control all elements of creative performances and their harmonisation in a single thematic whole.

Mode of delivery:
Prerequisites and co-requisites:
Recommended optional programme components
Course contents:

1. The performance objective and the dramaturgic-directorial concept.

2. A structural analysis of the dramatic situation and the motivation for the behaviour of dramatic figures.

3. Conventional and expressive behaviour and actions in a dramatic situation.

4. Scenic stylisation - its possibilities and drawbacks.

5. Creating and organising a dramatic space.

6. Fabulation between director and actor, warming up a situation and creating mis-en-scenes.

7. Performance as an entire structure and a specific system.

Syllabus:

Based on an analysis of the relevant dramatic material students are encouraged to create a dramaturgic directorial concept and to name the performance objective. The main starting point is in the first stage of study chiefly a practical structural analysis of the dramatic situation and its components. The analysis is understood to be the basis of scenic realisation, in which emphasis is placed chiefly on a clear and lucid time-space expression of the meaning of a dramatic situation using mis-en-scenes. The individual phases of a situation are accented, develped and diversified with regard to their thematic importance from the point of view of the whole. In the director's management of actors during the situation warm-up emphasis is placed on the motivation of the dramatic figures emerging from the relevant circumstances. Students also learn to create and organise a dramatic space as a hierarchic structure of thematic relations between individual elements in the stage space. During studies special emphasis is placed on developing coordination and the harmonisation of all elements creating a performance as a single thematic whole.

Study materials:

Pavis, Patrice ? Dictionary of the Theatre

Gordon, Robert ? The purpose of playing: modern acting theories in perspective

Schechner, Richard - Performance theory [2005]

Bogart, Anne - A director prepares: seven essays on art and theatre

Čechov, Michail Alexandrovič - The path of the actor

Čechov, Michail Alexandrovič - To the actor: on the technique of acting

Donnellan, Declan - The actor and the target

Hauser, Frank; Reich, Russell - Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director`s Chair

Gaskill, William - A Sense of direction

Krasner, David (ed.) - Method acting reconsidered: theory, practice, future

Lecoq, Jacques - The moving body: teaching creative theatre

Luere, Jeane - Playwright Versus Director: Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations

Hodge, Alison - Twentieth century actor training [2007]

Johnstone, Keith - IMPRO: improvisation and the Theatre

Merlin, Bella - Beyond Stanislavsky: the psycho-physical approach to actor training

Mitter, Shomit - Systems of Rehearsal. Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook

Rudlin, John - Commedia dell´arte: an actor´s handbook

Rudlin, John; Crick, Olly - Commedia dell´arte: a handbook for troupes

Stanislavski, Constantin - An actor´s handbook: an alphabetical arrangement of concise statements on aspects of acting

Stanislavski, Constantin - An actor´s work: a student´s diary

Thomas, James Michael - Script analysis for actors, director and designers

Zarrilli, Phillip B. - Psychophysical acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assessment methods and criteria
Language of instruction:
Czech
Work placement(s):
Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
Course web page:
Note:
Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:
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 K333
Učebna

(Karlova 26, Praha 1)

15:00–18:00
(paralelka 1)
místnost K101
Učebna

(Karlova 26, Praha 1)

15:00–18:00
(paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri
Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2011-6-17
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