TH 540 - Contemporary Directing

• Review the guidelines required in creative project documentation and apply them to a contemporary play of student’s choice, preferably the play the student wishes to do for their culminating project.
• Prepare a hypothetical written rehearsal schedule for their thesis production your home school and the second for the classroom project this term
• Create two ground plans for two different settings, one from your scene work in class.
• Prepare other students through direction of short “plays” to accomplish blocking with attention to interpretation, pacing, emotional through line, sustaining of dramatic tension, storytelling and picturization and coaching of honest performances.
• Present a polished, completed performance of directing exercises.
• Analyze one act of their thesis script and divide it into units of action, labeling each unit with a title which describes the action.