Master's in Directing of Dramatic Theater

If you have completed a Bachelor’s Degree in theatre directing, have a wealth of experience in dramatic arts and wish to expand your knowledge and skills, enroll for Directing of Dramatic Theatre 2-year Master’s Program at DAMU.

This is a full-time program taught in English. Applicants are expected to have a keen interest in theatre and other related fields. Applicants should demonstrate the capability of analytical reflection, a sense of image and composition, communication ability, and independent thinking.

The program curriculum, based on the traditional theatrical education that has shaped European classical drama over the past two and a half thousand years, is constantly being developed and modified to respond to modern theatre movements. This program offers students the opportunity to achieve a deeper theoretical understanding of directing as well as acquire the creative and managerial skills necessary to take advantage of the full range of expressive devices in mounting a full-scale theatrical performance. They conclude their studies by producing a performance at the school theatre, DISK.

Studies focus on the following areas:

• Creative Maturation – Students will develop and release their imaginations departing from their personal and particular perspective while actualizing modern approaches to rehearsing and stage creation including improvisation.
• Conceptual Actualization – Students will master the ability of both independence and teamwork in preparing a mise-en-scene. This means learning how to select a dramatic text, define directorial intent, develop a dramaturgical conception, prepare the production, and outline strategies for the rehearsal process.
• Developing Practical Skills – Students will actively collaborate with stage design and dramaturgy students as well as sound designers. They will learn basic strategies and skills for working with actors and what it means to lead a production team: timetabling, delegating tasks, and maintaining fluent communication amongst team members. Students will discover the importance of taking into account their colleagues’ ideas and themes and what it means to work within the specificities of a theatrical context. In effect, they will learn to interconnect the individual elements of a staged work in a meaningful way through a live communicative medium and understand the process of searching for form and developing chosen themes. This will culminate in a demanding mise-en-scene taking full advantage of stage design, music, sound, and lights to express content through the form.
• Theoretical Analysis – Students will hone their analytic skills so they can reflect on basic problems and questions connected with the genesis and development of dramatic art and analyze specific examples of contemporary stage practice.

Graduate Profile

A graduate of the Master`s program in directing must be capable of independent creation and is able to develop an integrated stage form on an appropriate artistic and professional level. His/her skills must include the ability to reflect on specific issues of directing in the written Master`s work on an appropriate theoretical level. He/she must have mastered the professional fundamentals of directing not only in theatre but also in other media, radio, television, and should be able to orient himself/herself in production, as well as in the organization and management of a theatre. He/she can find future professional employment in all of these areas.

Graduates should be well-equipped technically for their professions and should have mastered a wide spectrum of skills and knowledge in the theory and history of their field in connection with the development of world art and history generally. They should be oriented in the broad domestic and foreign context, and be able to interpret contemporary theatre and their own experience with it in a creative manner.