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Dec 06, 2024
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DRA 240 - Stage Management Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 45 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: General This course provides the opportunity to develop a practical and clear understanding of the professional standards and expectations of a contemporary stage manager in theatre, and similar settings. Attendance at a theatrical performance may be required. Competencies
- Diagram the typical process of bringing a story from early stages of production to the completion of performances.
- Discuss best practices for production meetings.
- Illustrate a traditional rehearsal process from first meeting through previews.
- Explain performance schedules, including understudy rehearsals and strike.
- Differentiate which processes are dependent upon effective stage management.
- Break down the essential functions of a stage manager within a production.
- Examine terminology considered industry standard for stage managers.
- Relate terminology to theoretical moments of practical implementation of the terms.
- Analyze industry standard procedures that members of stage management implement, then maintain, within a production.
- Review industry standard stage management guidelines as laid forth by Actor’s Equity Association.
- Demonstrate an ability to use this discipline knowledge consistently.
- Generate examples of industry standard forms.
- Determine which forms are used regularly as a tool to enhance communication.
- Show examples of forms that are industry standard for record keeping.
- Design an effective personal system of organization for frequently used forms.
- Analyze one or more plays with a focus on how to effectively manage the production from moment to moment.
- Discuss essential elements of plays in production.
- Make sense of dialogue as action on stage.
- Interpret non-dialogue aspects of a play as written by the playwright.
- Develop an ability to clearly communicate the key components of effective script analysis.
- Investigate an effective prompt book.
- Determine which tools were necessary to make the prompt book effective.
- Discuss how effective theory is applicable to effective practice.
- Produce a sample prompt book.
- Organize a complete prompt book effectively.
- Design an effective script used to call cues in performance.
- Assess the effectiveness of prompt books created.
- Critique one’s own prompt book with special attention to how effectively it can be used in production.
- Show a consistent use of objective and considerate criticism of colleague’s prompt books.
- Develop an ability to constructively receive feedback.
- Evaluate prevalent, industry specific hiring practices for stage managers.
- Distinguish what makes contemporaries in production successful.
- Assess various markets for stage management demand.
- Demonstrate an ability to find stage management openings.
- Create a theatrical resume with a stage management focus.
Competencies Revised Date: 2020
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