Directing 4

Subject guarantor:

Josef KROFTA

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan SCHMID

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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

Mode of study:

Classes, consultations, exams, reviews.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

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

Recommended optional programme components:

Monitor of contemporary cultural events in the Czech Republic and abroad. Exchange internship abroad. Guest in a extra-curricular organization.

Course contents:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

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

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Participation in events according to the character of the master's study.

Assessment methods and criteria:

On-going consultations, supervision in rehearsals, review. Grading reflects the creativity results as well as their review and clarity of students future profile.

Course web page:

Note:

The course of study is determined by the person selected to be the master's study supervisor.

Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Dramaturgie alternativního a loutkového divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)