Collaboration: Reloaded

Catalog description

This production class is designed to examine the nature of collaboration between actors, playwrights, designers and directors, using the medium of the Reading, that form in which so much of the work of theater artists transpires. For each meeting the class will operate in five teams, consisting of a director, a playwright, one or two designers and several actors. (Since there are 6 playwrights enrolled in the class, 1 playwright will observe each section). The basic form of the class is simple: each week, teams will rehearse and/or present an excerpt of the playwright’s play as a reading. After each presentation, we will discuss, not the product, but the process of creating the reading: problems, successes, conflicts, choices.