Collaborative Play Investigation
S07
Michael Giannitti
The collaborative process is vital to the creation of most theatrical work, yet it is often first experienced when people come together to work on a project with imminent production deadlines. Students in this course will have the opportunity to experience the initial portions of the collaborative process several times over, through a series of class projects, free of the pressures of production. After initial discussion of the collaborative process, students will work in teams to develop conceptual approaches to a series of dramatic texts, ranging from classical to contemporary. Team composition will change with each project so that students will experience working with a range of collaborators. During each class, teams will share the results of their exploratory work by summarizing their process and the ideas discussed, and by presenting visual research and some basic sketches showing their proposed design choices.