COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course is a synthesis of theory and practice. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts and techniques of theatre directing and to prepare students to the direction and presentation of a scene (duration 5 min max). Through this course the students have to understand the expectations and demands of the theatre director profession and work on a synthesis of methods acquired during their studies. Their objective is to: organise a rehearsal, proposing and organising methods of training, proposing and analysing his own point of view of the text, creating conditions of acting production, work with space and sets. Throughout the semester they analyse making, performing and spectatorship as interrelated activities. 

Furthermore, the course includes workshops for the students’ practical training.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon successful completion of the course students will acquire to directing a scene of e theatrical play, working with actors and with the space of the stage.