Jul 08, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

THAR 4200 - Practicum-Directing


Undergraduate directing practicum credits reflect work done on School of Theater productions as a director or assistant director, including mainstage shows, lab shows, realism projects, style projects, and playwrights festival productions. Ideally, the faculty advisor will make periodic visits to rehearsals for these projects, assessing rehearsal strategies and overall progress of the production. (In the case of an assistant directing practicum, the faculty advisor will make periodic contact with the director to validate the student’s participation in the process.)

Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 1 - 6
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 18.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Develop a more logical and successful rehearsal schedule, implementing principles developed during the course of these rehearsals, including a richer understanding of the progressive building blocks of pre-production, casting, table work, blocking.
  • Distinguish between those rehearsal strategies which fit table work and blocking, and those which are appropriate to scene work and run-throughs, and be able to apply the right strategy at the right time.
  • Understand the process of directing for the stage as it applies to the real-world laboratory of the rehearsal hall.


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