THTR 1020 Chapter : Directors 11 7
Document Summary
Julie tamor director of spiderman & the lion king on broadway: football coach. Interpreting the script and developing a vision or concept for the production: working with the design team to develop the visual, oral, and spatial world of the production, casting and rehearsing the actors. Integrating all the elements into a unified whole. Director as translator: director communicates playwrights message, lou bellamy - african american theatre company; directs the work of august wilson. Traditional director (director as translator: lou bellamy focuses on the playwright; naturalism & realism; little emphasis on his concept. Postmodern director (director as auteur: robert wilson directed shakespeare"s sonnet 66; performed in german, director as auteur often services the director"s ego. Tennessee williams: a director"s job is to turn the blueprint into a house. Quadrants of the stage: down stage center most important part of stage.
