TA 254 Directing I

This course is designed to introduce you the basic fundamentals of directing plays for the stage. We will carefully examine play structure and analysis, communication with the actors and designers, and rehearsal process and performance.

Credits

3

Offered

Offered Winter only

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

General Education Requirements

AAOT Arts & Letters,

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
To examine and practice the directors jobs. To build a vocabulary for analysis collaboration and staging. To practice and build skills towards the art of directing and active script analysis. To develop an eye for identifying the questions to be answered toward production in a text and identifying the answers chosen in production as being distinct from the myth of the right, bright ideas. Practice collaboration as actors serving all the scene work and learning analysis skills from both sides of the system. To handle multiple assignments and manage timelines. Understand the history of the modern director, and its relation to various tradition of world theatre. Develop the ability to analyze a text for dramatic action, incorporate ideas and concepts from various art forms in order to analyze dramatic texts. Articulate an approach for the direction of a play text. Be able to articulate their vision to core theatre artists. Explore creative solutions to immediate and ongoing rehearsal issues. Develop an awareness of the responsibilities of an artist to society, and the responsibilities of a society to its artists. Interpret and engage in the Arts, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of his her life. Critical analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues through the creation of a piece of theatre.