Stage Directing Book- Prologue Flashcards
Artist-Director
Expose themselves to music, art, politics, history and nondramatic literature alone the way, finding he resources of intellect and artistry to deepens their vision of theatre.
Artisan-Director
Production concept that serves a particular audience at a particular time in a specific venue.
Directors Job
- Organize and unify everything the audience sees and hears through time.
- Have a vision of the play script
- Develops a clear response to it’s emotional impact, meaning and individuality of expression
Nonverbal communication
- set
- lighting
- costuming
- sound effects
- music
- silence
- time
- tempo
Meaning
- color
- proximity: nearness of distance between people
- pitch and volume
- objects: items on stage or something a character wears of handles
- space: theatre and stage space
The Effective Director
- comprehend the structure and dramatic impact of the script
- discern the intellectual thrust of a script
- experience the impact of spoken dialogue
- shape the pace of the production
- inspire the designers and actors to make their best contributions
- understand color, form, mass and line
- organize the creative team within time and money constraints
- work well with varying personalities
- define and solve problems as they arose during the production process
Recreative Directors
See themselves as interpreters of the given text.
Music can have individuality but all
concerned are following composers intent.
Cocreators Directors
- Equal with playwright
- Use the playwrights text only as a starting point for building stage productions
Text Centered Strategy
Nothing should stand in the way of the script as the playwright wrote it.
True to playwrights intention
Basically recreative
Staged without cuts, male roles played by males, no ethnic diversity
Director-Centered Strategy
The director is a creative equal in importance to the playwright.
Use text as starting point.
Theatrical or textual interpolations, cross gender, gender bling casting.
Extraordinary rhythm.
A Continuum
Most directors have a strategy I between both text-centered and director centered.
Some adjustments can be made, but stick by the script.
Copyright
A license granted to the author to control the dissemination of the work and to profit from it as the author sees fit.
- permission must be granted in advance
- usually pay a royalty
- violate contract when copyright is altered.
- royalty agreement obligates the producing organization to perform the work “as written.”
Public domain
- Works do not have copyright
- Plays that author have given up copyright to or copyright has expired
- U.S. copyright is valid for the life of an author plus 75 years
- no royalties, scripts can be modified
