
KRISTA D. PRICE
Reading: Director's Concept
Definition: A central idea that unifies all elements of the production to make it unique.
Text: Thinking Like a Director (Chapter #3: Interpreting the Action - pgs 31-32 only)
Text: Thinking Like a Director (Chapter #5: Developing the Approach - pgs 69-77, 80 only)
My director’s concepts for three different shows were centered around the following words/phrases (in “quotations”). Look at the pictures for each production (by clicking the title of the show), and observe the ways in which I sought to visualize my concept/metaphor on stage.
Please write about your observations in a journal entry entitled “Director’s Concept Observations".
1. The Crucible: the "deconstruction" of a society pitted against eachother (click HERE to read/see more)
2. Flowers for Algernon: the "maze" of a changing mind (click HERE to read/see more)
3. Once on this Island: peasants' collective "tale" of "two different worlds" that collide to show that "love is more powerful than death" (click HERE to read my written Director's Concept for this show)