feedback on directing

As you are all getting specific acting notes, please contribute to feeding back to steven.

• good note-taking on blog and in my observation supportive of actors and their processes.
• make sure you are watching who is wanting to contribute to discussion.
• even jovially, beware of phrases such as 'shut up'.
• i quite agree that absence needs to influence the process and decisions; negotiate with the group what this might mean practically.
• how do your collegues respond to the feedback? especially when different people feedback and may have contrasting views. when is the time to read the notes, to respond to them and how do they use them or filter them?
• what kind of work do you all want to make? what shared references, shows, reading are you doing as a group to share a particular vision?
• whose working processes inspire you as a group, what are the company rules, ethic and and collaborative models?
• which directors inspire you? you need to share with the group.
• consider how you use the space; at the moment, you are the only one on a chair (and me as observer). Is this the best way to facilitate a discussion? Not saying it is or not, but question it.
• how much work do you want your audience to do? are you giving them enough gaps to fill in? are you leaving enough to their imaginations?
• my main note for steve and for the rest of the group; what is informing your opinions? it may not have been evident this morning but possibly more shared research needs to be done to enrich the sophistication of your interpretations. What are the dramaturgical principles you are using. What is dramaturgy???

Last one: recommend that you all spend some time to discussing collaborative models; 

if you each drew a diagram of how your collaboration looks, would they be very different?