In a community theatre, the director may report to and artistically satisfy an artistic director or a board of directors. Job titles and duties are covered in Module 2, but it may be useful now to illustrate a typical scenario of how this theatrical collaboration functions:. A theatre company, school program, or community theatre has decided to produce a play or a season of plays. Each company will have its own reasons for producing the play s it choses, as well as for its desire to produce play s at all.
How are plays selected for production? A school program might choose plays based on educational opportunities, topical stories, or strong roles that provide growth opportunities for acting students. A community theatre may produce plays that provide lots of opportunities for involvement and tend towards large cast shows. A professional theatre may consider a group of plays that fits together as a season, peaks public interest, and has good potential to sell tickets.
Original theatre productions are often mounted based on the reputation of the playwright. Regardless of the criteria for choices, the people responsible for programming read many plays in order to choose appropriate material for production. Often plays are chosen with a specific director in mind.
The director may have a particular style or resume of experience that makes them a good match for both the script and audience. They may have a great track record of working with a particular theatre group. Whatever the criteria for selection of the director may be, once selected, they are often asked to help form the rest of the creative team for the production. This team includes the producer, director, designers, choreographers, and musical directors.
Some companies utilize resident designers who, as employees of the company, are assigned to a particular production based on their talents and experience. In other productions the director may be asked if they prefer to work with a particular designer or other creative team member and, possibly, if they have preference for a particular stage manager.
Once assembled, this team develops an artistic approach to the production known as a production concept. This concept expresses the unifying vision that each individual strives to support in creating the production elements.
The production concept is arrived at through careful consideration of the script , the reason to produce a specific story for a specific audience, the production resources , and the inspiration and insights of the particular creative team. If you are asked to play a part in a production either on stage or behind the scenes, consider the commitment you are making. It will consume more than just your time.
You are agreeing to be part of the collaboration and will have to do your very best at your task to uphold the commitment to the entire production. It can use music, dance, sound, gesture - or any combination of these and others. Theatre takes on many different forms, too. There are operas and ballets, musicals and plays.
Even more theatre forms include mime, comedy, improv, performance art, and others. The idea behind it all is to bring an audience together to enjoy a performance. That is what theatre is all about -- allowing the actors to transform in character while allowing the spectators to drift into another world, if only for a couple of hours. It is left up to the audience to think, comprehend, and feel the performance on their own. Theatre is different from other arts because it is movement and voice and telling a story.
It is bringing words from a page to life. But it is so much more than that. It incorporates many different art forms into one piece of art. Think about it. Theatre is a Performing Art: The Production. Acting, directing, design, construction, running crew musicians, singers, dancers. An amalgam of all the arts -- making it either the least pure or the most pure.
Needs talent and skill to plan and execute, from all elements of the production. We can increase aesthetic and technical appreciation for the individual arts going into make theatre and for the different styles and periods of theatre. Theatre is a Major Form of Entertainment:.
As artists, we put ourselves into emotional and intellectual situations that may never arise in our personal lives. Theatre promotes us to give power to truth, to take risks and to advocate for new and diverse voices. Theatre reminds us that we are not alone. Not only are we sharing space and an experience with the artists who are performing, we are sharing the experience with fellow audience members.
Theatre is immediate, evolving and always different. Although the script may be the same every night, the performance is unique, each and every time it happens. No two performances are ever the same.
In this way, everyone involved has a distinct and unique experience that can never be replicated. Live theatre helps to promote social discourse, dialogue and potential social change.
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