DR 751 Graduate Directing V
This course is the third segment of a three-year program, rigorously immersing the students in all aspects of the great art of theater direction. In this semester, we will focus on the heightened texts and classical theater, investigating the director's role as an interpreter of classical works, and exploring the process of coming up with a world in which the text can live. Practical work will be done on editing or cutting within a verse structure, text analysis, approaching heightened text, reducing cast size, doubling roles, and rehearsal techniques for large cast classical plays. We will discuss the implications of the playwright's intent versus the director's and look at the director's role as interpreter or auteur. Overall, the goal is to hone the student's abilities to analyze the arc or core of the work, develop their own artistic vision and to turn that vision into theatrical production and action.