ABSTRACT

The direction of a production makes a vision of the unknown become known through the collaboration of its creative artists: the director, writer, scenographer, choreographer and lighting designer. Normally the decisions rest with the director, whose overall vision leads the direction of the production. Scenography and direction should work together like two halves of a brain, the visual and spatial talents of the scenographer complementing and working with the literary and narrative talents of a director to form the course the production will take. Direction is the vision that everyone involved in creating the production has agreed to work towards. The direction or mise en scene clarifies and enhances the spoken or sung words. The work between the director and the scenographer expands all the time, starting privately in a studio, and growing to the point where it has to be given away to the company to take it into another direction.