2/2-2/4 Developing a Vision

The Three R’s

• Reading

• Research

• Reflection

Directors as Collaborators

• Artistic Director

• Producer

• Stage manager(s)

• crew

• set designer

• costume designer

• lighting designer

• sound designer

• projections designer

• musical director

• choreographer

• fight

What do I see?

• Adjectives

  • destructive, lonely, deteriorating, cold, industrial, desperate, lost

• Metaphors

  • broken glass, path to heaven, golden river, snowflakes, diamonds, burning gold, three-ring circus, sun/moon, string quartet, sunrise/sunset

• Symbols

  • ladders, flags, colors, heart, cross…

Questions to ask…

• What is the story we want to tell?

• What is the space in which we want to tell it? Locations and Determining unit set or set with phases?

  • audience space, characters space/stage

  • unit set - house set with different rooms (kitchen, living room, bedroom)

  • phases - different moment, can be in a unit set, set at a different time0

• Restrictions/limitations? (space, budget, casting, script)

2 Part Concept Statement

• Part 1: DRAMATIC ACTION

  • (RENT: To find their Queer family)

• Part 2: IDEA FOR BRINGING DRAMATIC ACTION TO THE HERE AND NOW

  • Rent Example:

    • Unit Set

    • Adjectives: Industrial, Broken

    • Band on stage

    • Create a space which can suggest interior and exterior locations

    • Design enables searching and travel

    • A world that can enable a sense of drive and momentum

2 Adjectives + Film Genre

• Adjectives describe the “world” of the play

• Film genre describes the “style” of the play

  • Driven, desperate love story.