Basics to Stage Technology - Course 1

Subject guarantor:

Josef MADĚRA, Robert SMOLÍK

Name of lecturer(s):

Josef MADĚRA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Familiarise 1st year ALD department students with the entire breadth of stage technology and with all aspects of a theatre's operations (personal and technical). Emphasis is placed on the fact that technology and personnel as a whole must contribute to producing the best possible rehearsals and final result for the production.

Mode of study:

Lecture, samples in the school and other theatre spaces, discussion.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Interest in the profession.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Theoretical instruction:

- Personnel structure of the theatre.

Familiarisation with all professional personnel in the theatre; its hierarchy, professional arrangement and relations between individual workers and the workplace. Emphasis is placed on stage technoology elements. A detailed explanation of the functions of all a theatre?s employees, from the director, artistic head, stage master to the stage technican.

- Stable stage equipment.

Familiarisation with all firmly installed tehnical elements of the stage and audiorium used to serve the performance; their relationship to individual stage technology employees. Detailed description of this equipment?s functions.

- Portable stage equipment.

Familiarisation with all technical requisites, instruments and simple portable mechanisation on the stage and in the auditorium. Their function in building the theatre?s decoration and its operation during rehearsals and performances. Detailed explanation of the functions and possibilities of this equipment, relationship to stage technology employees and other persons moving in the theatre environment.

Practical instruction:

- Visit and inspection of a puppet theatre with explanation.

- Visit and inspection of a large classical theatre with explanation.

Recommended or required reading:

Topical professional press.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures, discussions, samples in school, in theatre and on-location.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on student skill and experience during the semester.

Course web page:

Note:

For 1st year Alternative and Puppet Theatre (ALD), Acting study, ALD, Bachelor's Directing-Dramaturgy, ALD Bachelor's, Set-design.

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:

• Herectví alternativního a loutkového divadla (Mgr.) (compulsory subject)
• Režie a dramaturgie alternativního a loutkového divadla (Bc.) (compulsory subject)
• Scénografie alternativního a loutkového divadla (Bc.) (compulsory subject)
• Performerství alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory subject)
• Scénografie alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory subject)