directing plays, part 1, lesson 4

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts * 0802130348 directing plays, part 1, lesson 4

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Directing:

1. directing script

2008 class : concept assignments

"Stage Grammar" TOPICS: drama + comedy + postmodern + time + space + past + present + future +

2007 -- thinkig about "Utopia" (conceptualization).

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More and more I use film terminology in BM class; simple as CU and MS frame -- or more complex, like line of action, axis of tention.

Film Glossary:

Film Abbreviations & Terms:

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* Ahart, Part 3, pp. 119- "Waiting for Godot" Analysis: Go.dot UAF Reading in class : tragicomedy in 2 acts (genre: comedy + tragedy) [ but NOT drama? ]

Beckett' Style (minimalism) + Absurd (Philosophy -- Existentialism)

Audience as a partner, dialogue with characters only through them! Public do not answer = godot-like. They are Godot...

How to make it into METHOD?

Hero = Audience.

Finally, the great theatre secret is reveled.

... images : maze, wall, crossroad...

Index * Method Acting * Script Analysis * SHOWS * stageMATRIX * appendix * Film Directing * I * II * III * IV * Classes *

Lesson 4: Beckett in directing class

Go.dot'06 in groups.yahoo.com/group/vtheatre

Return to overview of "director's functions": transition to Part 2. Directing Actors
[ read part 3. in your textbook for analysis ]
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Godot, p.1
A country road . A tree . Evening.

Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.

As before.

Enter Vladimir.

ESTRAGON:

(giving up again). Nothing to be done.

Beckett Pages and Godot'06:
Concept (Genre) -- playwright directions.
Characters -- preparations for working with actors.
Set Ideas (according to Beckett) : places = symbols

From My Shows

Character as Idea (Tragic and Comic Hero).

Scenes in class : ... Menagerie (7), Gogot (Ending), Hamlet (3.2?)

floor plan (directing space).

spring 2007

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