ARTS 201
Theatrical Staging and Design: Process of Collaboration Fall 2013
Division I
Cross-listed THEA 201
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This course examines the designer’s and director’s creative process and collaborative roles in the creation of theater. Over a series of practical projects in staging and mise-en-scene, as well as scenic, costume, and lighting design we will try different techniques for eliciting an initial creative response to a text, developing that response into a point-of-view, and solving the practical needs of the production. Particular emphases will be placed on how directors and designers work together to imagine the fictional world(s) of theatrical productions, how design elements synthesize 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. The course will be team-taught with the dual perspectives of directing and design prompting students to adopt various creative roles throughout the series of assigned projects. Basic presentation skills and technique, as well as methodologies for critical feedback, will be taught as crucial elements of staging and design development.
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 14
Expected: 12
Class#: 1786
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based upon committed class participation and thoughtful, timely completion of all assignments and projects
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Theatre majors
Unit Notes: this course is a prerequisite for all upper-level design and directing courses; this course does not count toward the Art major
Materials/Lab Fee: materials and copying $125 to be added to the students' term bill
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
THEA 201 Division I ARTS 201 Division I

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