THEA 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scenic Design, Rehearsal, Technical Rehearsal
Document Summary
Traditional director is the person responsible for the overall unity of a production and for coordinating the work of contributing artists. The auteur director will take the text and present his or her own interpretation of it. Examines text to understand purpose, structure, intension, and conflict. Must create a directorial concept and cast for production. Keep in mind stage picture and the pace of production. Helps to coordinate schedules, run the performance, calls rehearsals, tells performers their schedules, makes important announcements, coordinates light, sound and scene changes. Directors counterpart in business and management of production. They raise money, secure rights to script, deal with agents, hire the director designers and stage crew, deals with theatre unions, rents theatre space, keeps production on budget, and publicity. Combines all elements (actors, props, costumes, lights, set sound) together for first time. Looks like a large picture frame that the audience looks through. Used to be an arch, now, almost always a rectangle.
