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Katie Mitchell

A director must be knowledgeable about the topics in the plays they direct. They need skills in working with performers, analyzing text, communicating their vision to designers of sets, costumes, lighting, sound, music, and video. Directing is collaborative - the director must converse with the creative team and make decisions while listening to expertise of others. To make a successful production, strong relationships within the creative team are essential. A director prepares by analyzing major aspects of the text, developing a concept, and understanding characters' biographies, intentions and the historical context.

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Katie Mitchell

A director must be knowledgeable about the topics in the plays they direct. They need skills in working with performers, analyzing text, communicating their vision to designers of sets, costumes, lighting, sound, music, and video. Directing is collaborative - the director must converse with the creative team and make decisions while listening to expertise of others. To make a successful production, strong relationships within the creative team are essential. A director prepares by analyzing major aspects of the text, developing a concept, and understanding characters' biographies, intentions and the historical context.

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KATIE MITCHELL NOTES:

 Theatre directors need to be knowledgeable in


the topics involved with the plays they are
directing.
 Director needs to be skilled in 9 key areas:
1. Performers – need to be skilled in working with
performers.
2. Text – Analysing literature, turn it into a concrete
performance score, communicate that to actors,
teach them how to use it, configure it clearly so
an audience can understand what you are doing.
3. Design (set and costume) - Working and
communicating with costume designers and set
designers, to communicate your vision.
4. Movement (and dance) - What is the use of
movement and dance? What can it give you in
terms of your vision? Communicate with
movement coordinators.
5. Lights – Communicate with lighting directors,
correct terminology, understand how to get a
certain quality of lighting and how it can affect
the scene. How to paint the set.
6. Sound – Know what sound can do as a tool in the
production. - communicate with sound
technician. Explore creatively how to use sound,
simply and in an abstract nature.
7. Music – How to use music emotively in a
production – communicate with composer.
Different skill to a sound designer. Knowledge of
the effect of different genres and time periods of
music. Think how this could relate to a character
and scene, to create the desired effect.
8. Video – Whole other field, in its own right, Katie
M always wanted to pursue it. Wanted to make a
radical video adaptation, she did an adaptation of
Virginia Wolf “Waves”.
9. Creative team – Directing is a collaborative role,
always conversing with other roles,
communicating and making decisions, listening to
other leaders in their field. To make a production
need strong relationships within the creative
team. Many different areas are important within
theatre. Creative team is at the heart of a show.
 A director prepares.
 How to look at text – look at the major aspects
within text, pinpointing the interesting points /
essentials within the play. - what it’s going to
look that and how to do it. Concept is crucial
what is the one big problem, then the concern is
to sort the most creative solution.
 Biography of the character, intention with the
performers. Events and intentions.
 Historical context – we are watching a series of
changes on stage, created by an event.
 Original idea, word bead, came through as beat
because it was taught by a professor with a thick
Russian accent.

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