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TPST-250-01 Directing for the Stage
Spring only
This course engages in an actively experiential investigation of the art of directing for the stage. In our workshops, we will focus on the development of skills in the areas of composition and use of theatrical space, picturization and the creation of stage imagery, dramaturgy and historical research, script analysis and textual interpretation, casting and the development of a production concept, collaboration and communication with actors and designers, ensemble development and the creation of "style". Through a variety of readings from theorists and practitioners, as well as viewings of performances on campus and in local professional theatres, we will also engage many of the issues and themes at the forefront of the consciousness of practicing directors and theatre scholars. For example, we will explore questions about the relationship between politics and aesthetic practice, the role of the audience, the institutional realities of professional theatre, classical texts and questions of fidelity and "auteurism," mulitculturalism and the politics of representation, and, most broadly, the role of theatre-making in our society. It is an assumption of the course that stage directing is by its nature one of the ultimate "interdisciplinary" activities. In order to develop any sense of a directoral point of view, the stage director becomes a student not only of theatrical practice but of politics, literature, visual art, music, philosophy, science, religion, current events, and so forth. As much as imparting skills, the course asks students to begin to think as directors, and to bring diverse aspects of their own identities to the work.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: TPST-020 or permission of the instructor
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