31-3706 Devising for Directors

Student directors will, with actors, learn, explore, devise and present three short exercises in three varying styles:
–DIRECT ADAPTATION from prose short story or segment of a longer work; incorporating skills of adapting and dramatizing text; also incorporating the style created in Paul Sills’ Story Theatre.
–MOVEMENT/IMPROV BASED; incorporating such physical techniques as Viewpoints and LeCoq; and more familiar improvisational techniques such as Spolin and Johnstone; based on a short story, poem, or folk or fairy tale.
–RESEARCHED PIECE ON AN EVENT/OR PERSON; incorporating film and video research, preferably combined with live interviews to present, explore, and consider the themes of a factual event or person, a là Laramie Project.
They will then choose one style and present a longer piece in that style.

3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 31-2700 Directing I