Author Question: Since it is unusual for directors to also design their productions: a. they meet with designers ... (Read 34 times)

cabate · **on:** Aug 26, 2018

Since it is unusual for directors to also design their productions:

a. they meet with designers as early as possible to discuss the play and the production concept.
b. they revise their concepts right up until opening night.
c. they must communicate all of their ideas in the first production meeting for how the production will become reality.
d. they have designers put together their own ideas a couple of months before the opening of a show.

Question 2

One approach to directing, called the auteur approach, places less emphasis:

a. on the written play, allowing for reshaping as the director sees fit.
b. on production and more emphasis on the process, so that a play may never be performed for a live audience.
c. on the written play, reshaping it as the director sees fit AND on production and more emphasis on the process, so that a play may never be performed for a live audience.
d. NEITHER on the written play, reshaping it as the director sees fit, NOR on production and more emphasis on the process, so that a play may never be performed for a live audience.