Production Seminar 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 204PRS1 | Z | 1 | 2T | Czech | summer |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the situation in Czech theatre and the conditions, principles and tools used in the implementation of theatre activity, whether single performance or in a theatre organizaion. The particulars, primarily in the application in individual or smaller creative teams.
The course content is an introduction to the basics of managing a theatre project - from the creation, existence and close of basic theatre project forms, being single-perforance stage projets, independent theatre ensembles and smaller festivals and other theare events.
Mode of study
Classes, two class-hours per week.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Interest in issues.
Course contents
- Introduction to issue
- Project types, their particulars and creation,
- creative, financial and production viewpoints,
- basic questions: why, for whom, with whom.
- Project budget - budget expense side I
- Structure of expenses, logical divisions,
- accounting of individual items - deductions, mutual links,
- practical examples.
- Project budget - budget expense side II
- Creating a model example (fictional project or real project),
- estimates of individual budget items,
- reverse control and finalization of the expense side of the budget.
- Project budget - earnings
- Where to find sources,
- construction of the earnings part of the budget,
- how to subsidise missing sources, alternatives,
- budget finalization - judgement of practical execution,
- pratical project implementation - monitoring the budget, accounting.
- Grant issues - practical exercise
- Where to ask,
- characteristics and division of grants and donations into groups,
- practical preparations of grant applications,
- fundamentals - „tips and tricks“,
- limits to exhausting funds,
- basics in accounting,
- decision principles and processes in Czech Republic Ministry of Culture grants.
- Production of further independent projects (smaller festivals, concerts, open-air events)
- Particulars of individual types,
- administrative burden (location, type of event particulars, etc.),
- production processes,
- practice examples.
- Summary and preparation for final paper
- Summary of issues,
- final paper assignment,
- individual consultation and assignment.
Recommended or required reading
- BRAUN, Kazimierz. Druhá divadelní reforma? Přel. Jiří Vondráček. Praha: Divadelní ústav; Praha: Městská knihovna; Praha: AMU; Brno: JAMU, 1993. 176 s. Přel. z: Druga reforma teatru? ISBN 80-7008-037-X.
- Braun, Kazimierz. Divadelní prostor. Praha AMU 2001.
- BROCKETT, Oscar G. Dějiny divadla. Přel. Milan Lukeš a Zdena Benešová. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny; Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1999. 948 s. Přel. z: History of the Theatre [1968, 1999]. ISBN 80-7008-096-5 (Divadelní ústav). 80-7106-364-9 (Lidové noviny).
- BROOK, PETER. Prázdný prostor. Přel. Alois Bejblík. Praha: Panorama, 1988. 232 s. Přel. z: The Empty Space.
- Císař, Jan. Přehled dějin českého divadla I. + II. Praha: AMU 2004.
- Císař, Jan. Základy dramaturgie. Praha: AMU 2009.
- Česká divadla - encyklopedie divadelních souborů. Ed.: Eva Schormová. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2000. 616 s. ISBN 80-7008-107-4
- HYVNAR, JAN: Francouzská divadelní reforma, Praha: Pražská scéna, 1999.
- PAVIS, Patrice. Divadelní slovník: slovník divadelních pojmů. Přel. Daniela Jobertová. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2003. s. 496. Přeloženo z: Dictionnaire du Théâtre [1996]. ISBN 80-7008-157-0.
- PŐRTNER, PAUL - Experimentální divadlo. Přel. Jan Rak. Praha: Orbis 1965. 176 s.
- SEMIL, Małgorzata: Slovník světového divadla 1945 - 1990. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1998.
- Slovník literární teorie. Praha: Čs. spisovatel 1977
- Dvořák, JAN: Kreativní management pro divadlo. Pražské scéna. 2004.
Assessment methods and criteria
A requirement for credit is 80% class participation. Final semester paper.
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
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| Wed | 08:30–10:00 | Petr PROKOP | Učebna R210 (DAMU) Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Acting for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)
- Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)
- Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)