Learning Outcomes:
This course aims to introduce students to the role of the director, through the context of Beckett's plays in practice.
Students will have the opportunity to study selected plays by Beckett in detail in practice and to explore the process of conceiving and planning a production and with reference to site-specific staging.
On completion of the course, students will be familiar with issues concerning Beckett's plays in performance, be confident in their understanding of the role of the director in theatre, and be capable of creating a production plan in the form of a Director's Notebook
Indicative Module Content:
• 1: Language Part One
• 2: Language Part Two
• 3: Meaning / Stage Directions
• 4: Site Specific Staging Part One
• 5 Site Specific Staging
• READING WEEK
• 6: Mid Term Presentations
• 7: Physicality
• 8: Director’s Approaches
• 9: Beckett Characters and Actors
• 10: Director’s Notebook Preparation
• 11: Course Overview & Feedback & Assignment preparation.