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A director's vision is the command, direction, and center of the whole stage and theater. A director's vision usually includes:                       Summary/description of play                       Influences (other plays, other directions)                       Main ideas / theme to focus one                       Characters:highlighting importance                       First impressions                       Inspiration: (image, sound, videos)                       Staging the techie                       impact on the audience   ...

I have had a really great time on Sunday with a company that came from New York. Although we don’t know them and especially myself was really nervous, I enjoyed the time of making progress and having fun together. First of my favorite things about the event was that we always s together in a   circle. By sitting together in a circle on the ground we were able to see each other; and it especially made me feel less stressed because we were all together on the same page talking and siting informally. Second of my favorite things was watching everybody else coming up with their own movements because it was really funny and interesting. Thirdly, my favorite out of my favorites is the activity that we needed to come up with our own impossible stage direction and staged it. Our group chosed my stage-direction idea and together we plotted the scenes together. Also, acting it out was really enjoyable for me. Overall, they are so nice and interesting and we are so fortunate to have them visi...

1. “Because visual images are often the most obvious signs of directorial influence, audiences sometimes mistakenly assume that interpretation exists entirely in the book of a production.” 2. When a director have an intuition about an approach in the early stages of preparation, the action breakdown becomes a way of testing, developing, and adjusting the intuition. 3. “To create an effective overall vision, an approach must take into account the play’s central conflict  and have a point of view about its world.” 4. “I like to begin by thinking about the world of the play as written. For instance, is it one character’s world or that of a group or community? Is the environment accommodating or hostile to the protagonist?” 5. “Try reading the play once, at a relatively early stage, for images rather than story and action.”

Linda Li Mrs. Guarino IB Theater HL 23 October 2018 Linda Li’s Director Vision of The Caucasian Chalk Circle     When we cheerfully completed the play The Caucasian Chalk Circle last year in the Black Box theater, the images and the script were stamped into my brain. The Caucasian Chalk Circle was about a peasant girl, Grusha who rescued a baby, Michael, and became a better mother than its wealthy natural parents, George Abashwilli and Natella Abashwilli. For the particular scene that I have chose from the play, which is the scene that Natella screaming and fighting the judge Azdak because he decided that Grusha would be Michael’s official guardian and her own property would be taken for public usage, I have decided to plot the scene again by in a independent and different way. Additionally, I was inspired by Mr. Aronson’s style of arranging the scenes of the play and the very aggressive and powerful image of Natella Abashwilli who is one of the most important i...

Linda Li’s TOP 10 Take Away: 1. “...a director’s proficiency in certain skills, such as staging and composition, translates into great productions. But as with every art, technique alone is hardly sufficient. To be successful, a director must be creative, inventive, intuitive, and above all passionate.” 2. “...Interpretation, it is now recognized as central to the director’s work, informing every aspect of preparation and production.” 3. “...yet theater has no choice but to be contemporary. Because audience perception changes with time, interpreting a play necessarily...” 4. “ An important goal of my own directing is to discover points of communion between a play and its particular audience in ways that delight and surprise.” 5. “For a director, no reading of a play is as important as the first, because the experience will most closely mirror that of the average audience.” 6. “There are two basic ways in which research can be valueable. It can illuminate the acti...

Generally, “setting”  in theater literally means the given circumstances and world of the play. Specifically, the setting of this scene in the play the Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht was in ancient Europe where wars and armies were popular and common. Based on the story from the play Caucasian Chalk Circle, the scene I picked which is the climax of the story, which was when the Judge Azdak fully set Natella the governor’s “on fire” in front of the public in a court. Also, in my vision, there aren’t a lot of furnitures on the stage except for a chair for Azdak in the center and everyone else sitting around him. I want the audience to focus more on the characters that are standing and doing something on the stage more instead of the background. A director’s vision is used to shape the look and feel of a film or a video. The director's vision shapes the look and feel of a film. Basically director’s view and direction are the center of the stage. It is so important that actor...