What is a Director?

Aim of Task:
To start considering the question "What is directing"?

Description:
Together, as a class, we read the worksheet on "What is a director?" with a spider graph on it. We agreed that a director is a leader: he is a decision maker on the scene. He is:

• "And interpreter of text decoded and analysed for the stage."
• "Leaders who ensure all aspects of the production are moving in the same direction."
• "Facilitators who want to enable the actors to find their own meanings and characteristic."
• "Dictator/manipulators who wish to use the actors as puppets for their ideas."
• "Persons who want to realise their vision of the text on stage."
• "Sees the performance from an audience perspective. A view outside the actor."
• "Decision makers. Team builders. Team members."
  

Reflection:
In the directing exercise that we did, I found out that the whole play depends on the point of view of the director. The director unifies the actions of each of the actors, the director is responsible for the actions between each of the actors. The script can have the dialogue and some of the actions, but the play can change so much just changing the director; because different directors have different points of view.

Conclusion:
The director is just as important as in how the play is going to be seen by the audience. The director is like a "theatrical god." He is a person who determines what each of the actors is going to do: everything that he says has to be done by the actors.