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Directors make direct decisions that have direct effects on the stories they direct. Now, kindly direct yourself to that play button to learn more.

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Transcript

00:04

[Coop and Dino singing]

00:13

Let's say one day you had a craving for cheesecake, but you were way too lazy to make the cake [Girl searches for cheesecake recipe online]

00:18

yourself.

00:19

So you wrote down all of the steps and collected all of the ingredients…. [Girl walks away with a list of ingredients]

00:21

…and then you gave it all to your little brother.

00:24

Sure, you gave him all the tools he needed to make that cake… but are you gonna end

00:27

up with your idea of the perfect cheesecake?

00:29

Well, no… you'll probably end up with your younger brother's interpretation of a cheesecake. [Girl thinking of her little brothers cheesecake]

00:33

Which might not be quite as rad.

00:35

…and might also be on fire….yikes. [Boy walks into room with cheesecake on fire]

00:37

Anyway, this same principle can be applied to plays.

00:40

When you hand off your completed play to a director, there's no guarantee that it'll [Woman hands director a copy of her play]

00:45

turn out exactly the way you wrote it.

00:47

Sometimes, the director will decide to add, change, or remove things from the play to

00:50

change how their audience will view the performance.

00:53

This could mean adding a new character, changing a specific line of dialogue, moving a scene [Coop discussing director's edits]

00:57

to a new setting, adding a new action for a character, or adding any number of special

01:02

lighting and sound effects to draw attention to something.

01:04

Really, the director could do anything.

01:06

They could add a lion in there if they wanted to. [A director in a graveyard and a lion appears]

01:08

Which…would make sense in The Lion King.

01:10

Maybe not so much in Hamlet.

01:11

This is why so many directors are able to direct classic plays like Shakespeare and

01:15

have it feel completely fresh and original each time. [People walking outside a theater]

01:18

Take Romeo and Juliet.

01:19

One director might do a traditional performance.

01:22

Another might choose to set the play in modern New York.

01:24

While another might turn it into a swingin' musical. [Man in modern New York and a disco ball appears]

01:27

Or even a contemporary mime performance.

01:29

Directors can take great liberties in turning scripts into a performance they can call their

01:33

own, which is one of the great strengths of theater that makes it so exciting. [Mime waving in the crowd]

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And if there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that playwrights can’t be control

01:41

freaks.

01:42

Because no matter what happens, they might just end up with a lion. [Mime on stage and lion appears]

01:44

And if we said we weren't going to end this video with a stupid pun….guess what?

01:48

We'd be lion. [People run away and Mime sitting in the audience]

01:50

Ehehehehehe.

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