Directing 3
- 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:
- Milan SCHEJBAL
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Milan SCHEJBAL
- Study Objectives:
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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:
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Lectures, classes, course paper and its defense.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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1) Knowledge of theatre history and theatre types.
2) Good bearing in Czech and World drama literature
3) Mastery of basic theatrology concepts.
- Recommended optional programme components
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Monitor of novelties in drama works, progressive productions and trade publications.
- Course contents:
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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:
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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
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Trade theory lectures. Classes focused on preparation and review of the rehearsal process taking place in the „Staging“ course.
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Required attendance in class and independent completion of the course paper. Grading originates in the submission and defense of the course paper and considers participation in class debates.
- Language of instruction:
- Czech
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
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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 Thu Fri Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky Thu 15:00–18:00 Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1paralelka 1 Thu 15:00–18:00 Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1paralelka 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Režie a dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Bc.) (main subject)