Featured Pages: Directing ONLINE and Acting Directories! Love of Beauty? Love is Beauty! And Beauty is Love! There are people who do not know it. There is a lot of sick people out there. Site Map * What's New * Search See TEXTURE: LANGUAGE and MUSIC HamletDreams showcase: Plays Concept Design Costumes Light Sound/Music (Use Hamlet directory) Your concept for Hamlet, no grade homework: follow the professions of theatre line. Spectator Summary The Possessed Opsis [W] Opsis comes from the ancient Greek for "appearance, sight, view" ... Notes Aristotle's use of the term opsis, as Marvin Carlson points out, are the "final elements of tragedy" as outlined by Aristotle, but "receive no further consideration". [2] Aristotle discusses opsis in book 6 of the poetics, but only goes as far as to suggest that "spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet" [W]. ...

Spectacle = SHOW

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All languages of stage can be placed into three categories. This gives us the "how."
a. visual means
b. verbal (includes aural) means
c. kinesthetic means

SPECTACLE is the last principle in Aristotle's Poetics, defining the drama' essence. Show, we say. Or - film!

Is it structural or textural principle? "Form" or "meaning"?

The process: from the text to the show: HamletDreams, secret life of the live show.

Tasks and production periods: pre-production and production (see Film Production)

Visualization of Drama (use UAF shows). Conflict, ideas (meaning) --> forms.

Director's Mind and Eye: vision!

Why do I need to stage this show TODAY? History and our present. Our problem and eternal issues. Personal (why this is important? maybe most important). Social frame of references.

Concept: idea of interpretation (new meaning). Director as a first spectator.

Director and Actors, Actors and Text. Cast Idea.

Problems as creative challenges. Artistic Choices: Right and Wrong. Strong choices. "No-choice choice" = mis-directing.

Idea > Concept > Text > Design > Actors > Spectacle The Product

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What is "mise-en-scene"? Blocking: between text, set (space) and actors.

Homework

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