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This module is intended for those students interested in taking the subject who do not have prior knowledge or experience.
The dynamics of the laboratory is theoretical-practical. In the first part, theoretical aspects related to the staging and direction of actors will be introduced, which will be applied in a practical way to the specific work of a dramatic text proposed by the teacher and with different exercices where the students will take part both as an actors and directors. In the second part, the students will start preparing an actor directing project, which will be put to the test in different practical sessions with a professional actress and actor.
 
The objective is to provide students with references related to techniques and methodologies with which to carry out theoretical research and practical work in the field of creative processes linked to theatrical performance. On this basis, the subject will develop a creative and actor's direction laboratory in which we will pay special attention to acting work to define the staging.
 
 
1. Basic notions of staging. Brief review of the figure of the stage director. Schools and interpretation techniques. The staging understood as convention. The construction of the meaning of the spectacle: instruments of signification. The staging as integration of languages. The relationship with the viewer.

2. Text analysis process. Basic concepts of dramatic text analysis. Documentation and contextualization. Circumstances, situation, dramatic action. Central line of action and thesis. Analysis and decomposition of the action: from the general to the particular. Approach to the study of the character in the text.
 
3. Steps towards staging. Procedures: documentation and contextualization. Creative hypothesis: sense and significance of the proposal. Ethics, technique and aesthetics. Scenic language: space, light, sound, character and movement as constitutive elements of tempo-rhythm and the sense of staging.
 
4. Introduction to the vocabulary of directing actors. Basic concepts for the analysis of elementary communicative action: circumstances, situation, stimulus, condition, objective, action, psychophysics. Verbal action, psychophysical action, physical action. Elements of analysis and construction of the action: context, situation, event, space, time, action, objectives, conflict.
 
5. The performer. Expressive instruments: the voice, the body and the image. Plasticity. Tempo-rhythm.
Aesthetics of the acting expression in relation to the staging. The word, the gesture and the movement as defining elements of the action and the staging. Expression as a constitutive element of meaning.
 
6. The direction of actors. Actors and directors: common instruments, complementary objectives, different procedures. Methodological procedures to design, propose and carry out the direction of actors in scenic artifacts. The improvisation.
 
7. Practical experimentation. From the text to the scene. Definition of the project and preparation of the scenic proposal. How the work of the interpreters alters the project and the sense of the staging: capacity for observation, discernment and modification of the stage director.