STUDY PROGRAMME
Scenography

AFAM CODE
ABPR35

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Direction

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Direction

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course focuses on live performances direction, and provides basic tools of direction both at a theoretical level, through front lectures, and at a practical one with theatre workshops. Moreover, the course helps the students develop their individual point of view, that mediates with the deepest contemporary needs.

The total credits for this course are 6, divided as follows:

• THEATRE DIRECTION: 3 CFA

• THEATRE DIRECTION WORKSHOP: 3 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

THEATRE DIRECTION:

• Understand the director’s creative choices

• Be familiar with the theatre workforce and their different roles

• Be in control of the administrative side of theatre projects

THEATRE DIRECTION WORKSHOP:

• Deal with different professional figures

• Understand work dynamics on stage

• Understand the need to compromise within work groups

THEATRE DIRECTION:

• Analysis of a director’s creative phases, from the abstract impulse to their communication choice

• Directing actors

• Choosing work teams

• Financial sustainability of a project

THEATRE DIRECTION WORKSHOP:

• Meeting different professional figures

• Stage management

• The theatre working group

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects to be developed.

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other multi-media material

• Exercises and revisions

• Laboratories

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Oral exams

• Submission of papers, essays or project work

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade for this course will result from the weighted average of its modules.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.