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Fundamentals of Directing Fall 2009 Schedule

Date	Topic 11 am	Assignments/Notes	Performances 5 pm
8/26	Intro/Syllabus	Schedule Drawing of performance order; Select Tzar/Tzarina	n/a
8/28	Choosing a play	Read: Wm Ball pp. 3-22; Clurman pp. 3-22;	n/a
8/31	Casting	Schedule "swap" Read: David Ball: 3-36 Read: Clurman: 64-73	n/a
9/2	Textual Analysis	Read: Wm Ball: 37-43 Read: David Ball: 39-96	n/a
9/4	Textual Analysis	Read: Wm Ball: 70-92 Read: Clurman: 15-22	n/a
9/7	PREBOOK	Read: Clurman: 74-86 & 179-299	n/a
9/9	Groundplans	Read: Clurman: 52-63	n/a
9/11	Blocking	Read: Handout	n/a
9/14	Design and Picturization	Read: Wm Ball: 150-174	n/a
9/16	Rehearsal strategies	Read: Wm Ball: 93-149 Read: Clurman: 87-108	n/a
9/18	Rehearsal methods	Read Clurman: 109-140	n/a
9/21	Dealing with actors	Read Wm. Ball: 44-92	n/a
9/23	Problem solving		n/a
9/25	Problem solving		Scenes TBA
9/28	Problem solving		Scenes TBA
9/30	Critiques		Scenes TBA
10/2	n/a		Scenes TBA
10/5	Critiques		Scenes TBA
10/7	Critiques		Scenes TBA
10/9	n/a		Scenes TBA
10/12	Critiques		Scenes TBA
10/14	n/a		Scenes TBA
10/16	Critiques		Scenes TBA
10/19	Pacer Weekend	Pacer Weekend	n/a
10/21	Pacer Weekend	Pacer Weekend	n/a
10/23	Critiques		n/a
10/26	n/a		n/a
10/28	TBA	Midterm Grades Due at noon	n/a
10/30	Lecture		n/a
11/2	n/a10/2		n/a
11/4	One on one		n/a
11/6	One on one		n/a
11/9	One on one		n/a
11/11	One on one		n/a
11/13	One on one		n/a
11/16	One on one		n/a
11/18	One on one		n/a
11/20	TBA		n/a
11/23	TBA		n/a
11/25	n/a
11/27	n/a
11/30	n/a		n/a
F 14-Nov	n/a		n/a
M 17-Nov	TBA		n/a
T 18-Nov	n/a
W 19-Nov	n/a		SCENE TBA
Th 20-Nov	n/a		SCENE TBA
12/2	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
12/4	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
12/7	n/a		SCENE TBA
12/9	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
12/11	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING
F 26-Nov	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING
M 29-Nov	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
T 30-Nov	n/a		SCENE TBA
W 1-Dec	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
Th 2-Dec	b/a		SCENE TBA
F 3-Dec	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
M 6-Dec	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA
T 7-Dec	n/a		SCENE TBA
W 8-Dec	CRITIQUES		SCENE TBA Contingency
Th 9-Dec	n/a	Contingency day	SCENE TBA Contingency
F 10-Dec	CRITIQUES	Last Day of Class Contingency day	Contingency

Texts:
Ball, David, Forward and Backward
Ball, William, A Sense of Direction
Clurman, Harold, On Directing