The module is broken into two parts. One consists of a weekly three hour meeting in which we study various methods of directing via textual analysis. These include 'actioning', working with verse and language, Laban's effort analyses, status games and an introduction to Lecoq's physical methods. In these sessions we also discuss some of the major theories of what the theatre is or should be - those of Gordon Craig, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht and Peter Brooks, in relation to many texts, including Shakespeare. The other part of the module is a series of weekly 'scene-classes' in which the MA students present the results of their directing undergraduate students in rehearsing scenes.