THTR 300 - Directing and Design: Building Collab

Upper Division

Prerequisites
SEM 150 and SEM 250 or SEM 327

This course examines the designers’ and director’s creative process, and their collaborative relationship, in the creation of theater. By exploring the dual perspectives of directing and design, students will be able to adopt various creative roles as they progress through a series of assigned projects. Through practical projects in world-building, staging, and design, we will try different techniques for eliciting an initial creative response to a text, and then developing those responses in support of dramatic storytelling.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways directors and designers (1) create a working group and navigate leadership in all facets of collaboration; (2) work together to imagine the fictional world(s) of theatrical productions; and (3) on the way design elements work synergistically with one another, with the work of the actors and director, and with the larger intellectual, emotional, and physical context of the work as a whole. Basic presentation skills and techniques, as well as a structure for giving and receiving constructive feedback, will be taught as crucial elements of artistic development.

Repeatable
No

Course credits: 4