Reading - Analyzing Theatre as Art

Reading: Analyzing theatre as Art

Text: A Sense of Direction (Chapter #1: Art, Consciousness, Belief, Unity - pgs 3-12)

Text: Thinking Like a Director (Introduction - pgs 3-7; Thinking Like an Artist - pgs 11-13 only)

Your Follow-up Tasks:

Answer the following questions from the text:

(Respond in your journal, using your "Reading" labels. Head each question with the question's red word(s).)

1. What does Ball say is the most important characteristic of a work of art?

2. What is the second characteristic of a work of art?

3. What is the third characteristic of a work of art?

4. What else is art/theatre expected to have that show business and television entertainment are not?

5. On what does an actor build his/her profession/art?

Answer the following analysis questions about YOUR directing task/piece:

(Respond in your journal, using your label "Directing" labels. Head each question with the question's red word(s).)

1. How will you seek to go about creating unity in the piece that you are directing?

2. What does the piece that you are directing reveal about the universe or the beauty of humankind? How can you emphasize those things in the directing of this piece and bring them closer to the audience’s consciousness? (i.e. through blocking, characters, costumes, lighting, etc.)

3. Describe a time (if you have one) when you, either as an actor or an audience member, suspended disbelief and truly felt “one” with a production/character/audience.