Directing 3
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Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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201RTB3 | ZK | 6 | 4/T | Czech | winter |
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- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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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 study:
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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.
- 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.
- Recommended or required reading:
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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
- 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.
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- No schedule has been prepared for this course
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (main subject)