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Directing and Producing

Producer－ have the financial and managerial tasks of making productions available to the public.

Director－ is concerned with the artistic aspects of production.

Organizations, a group of individuals, consortia.

Seek financial banking, raise the necessary capital.

Negotiate contracts with all of the personnel.Rent space for auditions and rehearsals.Keeping financial records, making reports to

investors.

Producer in Broadway Theatre

Decides upon an interpretation of the script and a production concept that will shape its staging.

Casts and rehearses with the performers.Works with the designers.Integrates all of the elements into a finished

production.

Director

Adrian Noble : “I tend to give the actors quite a strong conceptual line on a play…”

Peter Stein : “The fuction of the director is not that of the father, but perhaps that of the elder brother”

Ariane Mnouchkine : “I’m like a midwife.”

Transferring the script as literally as possible from page to page.

Search for a metaphor, dominant theme, or set of conventions that will shape the production. [ex]

Using this approach, directors may begin with the script but feel free to reshape it as they see fit. [ex]

Aproaches to Directing

Peter Brook – Midsummer Night’s Dream

Central motif : the potentials and dangers of love. used the performers cast as Theseus and

Hippolyta to also play Oberon and Titania to underscore these connections.

Botton, rather than being transformed into a donkey, became a clown with a red rubber ball for a nose.

• If ineptly applied it can distort the script by calling attention to bizarre staging.

Jerzy Grotowski－ Akropolis

With the intention of provoking audiences into self-examination and self-recognition.

Reshaped the play so that rather than stressing the possibility of redemption, it depicted “the cemetery of our civilization.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7T10IUBuU

Work with others in transforming their vision into reality.

Most directors begin with a reasonably clear idea of what they wish to accomplish, they also make discoveries through their interactions with designers and performers that provide new insights into the script and alter their initial plans.