TPP 2300 Beginning Directing — 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: TPP 2110 or permission of the instructor. This course is intended to provide theatre students with the basic principles involved in directing for the stage, a foundation for artistic and conceptual analysis of a script, and the artistic exploration needed to bring that script to realization on the stage. Topics included are the elementary principles of directing, exercises in implementation of specific skills relevant to the exercise of that craft, text analysis and interpretation, goals and methods of collaboration, and interpretive/ creative projects in which research and experimentation is stressed. Three contact hours. A.A., A.S., A.A.S.