George Wolfe-- More on Directing

Ideas--

• find a beat before the melody

"It's like getting on a ride right until 11:00 at night..."



Models/Sets--

• pull away walls/scrims
• rotate set pieces
• pull away set pieces into fly space
• attention to detail
• use coloring and lighting (different gobos, gels) to depict message
• light has great psychological power
• shadows are just as important as the light

**opposing forces in all of us

**sum up a play into two words
"showed love"

**you want your audience to get the big picture, but still taste the sweetness of the details

Ideas and Inspiration from Julie Taymor

my idol.

Technical Notes

List for the Technical Aspect of the Play:

1. Meet and talk about production concept
2. Set design
3. Costume design
4. Prop list
5. Makeup design
6. Sound design
7. Light design
8. What style do we want the play to be in

• check out acting approaches

Quotes from Julie Taymor

"A director channels the ideas"


"Human emotion can be expressed through simply the relationship between a hand and a face"


"Part of technical theatre is creating an ILLUSION"


"You dont have to understand every word to be able to understand the characters"-- pay attention to gestures, expressions, and movement


"Lighting is magical because it is this energy you cant touch or feel" --manipulate the color and DIRECTION of the lighting


"Live theatre is very exciting-- its not canned, its not frozen"


"Directors must justify everything"

Directing Notes

Process for Putting on a Show:

1. stimulus-- the piece you're performing (script, play, variety show, etc)
2. production concept-- idea of how youre performing it
3. research-- checking out how people have performed it before, looking up background and stuff
4. pick cast and crew
5. cold read and rehearsal process
6. blocking (singing/choreography)
7. characterization rehearsals
8. off-book night
9. detail rehearsals (run-throughs and clean-ups)
10. dress rehearsals
11. performances