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Roles of Director

A theatre director oversees all aspects of a theatrical production including coordinating the creative team, research, set design, costumes, lighting, and acting. The director works to realize their artistic vision for the production and ensure its quality. Contemporary directors act as the primary visionary, making decisions on artistic concept and play interpretation and staging. Directors have varying levels of authority and utilize different techniques, from fully controlling rehearsals like a dictator to taking a more democratic approach and incorporating ideas from others like a negotiator.

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Roles of Director

A theatre director oversees all aspects of a theatrical production including coordinating the creative team, research, set design, costumes, lighting, and acting. The director works to realize their artistic vision for the production and ensure its quality. Contemporary directors act as the primary visionary, making decisions on artistic concept and play interpretation and staging. Directors have varying levels of authority and utilize different techniques, from fully controlling rehearsals like a dictator to taking a more democratic approach and incorporating ideas from others like a negotiator.

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Roles of director

A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. To ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. Collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff, coordinating research, stagecraft, costume design, props, lighting design, acting, set design, stage combat, and sound design for the production. If the production he or she is mounting is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director may also work with the playwright or translator. In contemporary theatre, after the playwright, the director is generally the primary visionary, making decisions on the artistic concept and interpretation of the play and its staging. Different directors occupy different places of authority and responsibility, depending on the structure and philosophy of individual theatre companies. Directors utilize a wide variety of techniques, philosophies, and levels of collaboration.

Styles of directing The dictator The director has a strongly assertive role and is very dominant in the process of creating a theatrical work. Rehearsals are more or less fully controlled and predictable, with the actors having little or no say. The negotiator

The director focuses on a more improvised and mediated form of rehearsal and creation, using the ideas of the production team and actors to shape a theatrical work in quite a democratic style.

The creative artist The director sees himself or herself as a creative artist working with the 'materials' of dramatic creativity, be they the actors, designers and production team. The "creative artist" wants input from the actors but, as artist, has final say over what is included and how ideas are incorporated. The confrontationalist The director is in constant dialogue and debate with the cast and the production team about creative decisions and interpretations. The director seeks out and actively engages in such exchanges. Out of these exchanges, which can sometimes be heated or risky, comes a final contested product.

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