DIRECTORIAL CONCEPT/PLAY DIRECTING

DIRECTORIAL CONCEPT

                The directorial concept of a play is the artistic and aesthetic interpretation given to the play by the director; bring out the message of the play or the central ideal or theme of the play story using theatrical forces to achieve his main target.

For example he uses: Actors, Costume. Lighting, Theatre Management and the type of stage suitable for the production.  He uses the play to pass across a message and builds the whole play as the architect builds the house and designs it to a comfortable pattern. We can also say that the style of a character and his approach when directing a play can be either surrealistic or not.

            THE MESSAGE OF THE DIRECTOR FORMS HIS CONCEPT that is why it is called directorial concept and this concept involves blocking and it approach.

            The director always appreciates a play before directing it. He should always take into consideration: the history or period or time of a play before directing it. The time of a play story will make him to apply the right costume of that period or time. He looks at the language which is a variable tool of communication to pass his message across to his audience. He also takes into consideration the culture of the people.

PLAY DIRECTING

Directing is everything which entails remembering and understanding a text to be directed. A director has to get his fact straight when directing.

In play directing the director must first appreciate the play before going ahead with it directing. The play appreciation often reveals vital information about the play to be directed since directing is everything meaning that the director when directing should take everything about the play into a proper and thorough considerations like:

1.      The culture of the play

2.      The history of the play

3.      The Actors that will act in the play taking their psychological make-up into note.

4.       The costume and make-up

5.      The thought/theme

6.      The diction or language capability

7.      Music and dance

8.      Props and sets

9.      Area of performance

10.  Entrance and exit

11.  The expected reaction of the audience

These are many other factors the director should consider when directing a play.

By:

Eguriase S. M. Okaka