Teaching code

4S008043

Teacher

Simona Brunetti

Coordinator

Simona Brunetti

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/05 - PERFORMING ARTS

Period

1 A, 1 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

By analyzing specific issues of the History of theatre, we intend to introduce the student to the theoretical and methodological tools offered by the representative medium, regarding the field of communication and to the comparison between different theatrical traditions. At the end of the course students will be able to contextualize, comprehend and examine on their own the meaning of each coefficient proposed by a prose show.

Prerequisites and basic notions

None.

Program

Starting from historical reflections that have their roots in the progressive epicization of the drama outlined by Peter Szondi, the course aims to explore with examples aimed at male and female that heterogeneous complex of theatrical events born in the second half of the twentieth century and commonly brought together by definition of Teatro di Narrazione.
References
1. Non attending students will integrate the bibliography with the study of: Luigi Allegri, Prima lezione sul teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.
2. Critical analysis of selected passages taken from the following dramaturgies: Franca Rame, Dario Fo, Mistero buffo; Marco Baliani, Kohlhaas; Marco Paolini, Il racconto del Vajont; Curino-Vacis, Olivetti; Lella Costa, Amleto, Alice e la Traviata; Ascanio Celestini, Scemo di guerra.
3. Peter Szondi, Teoria del dramma moderno (1880-1950), Einaudi, 2000.
4. Simona Brunetti, Teatri di narrazione per exempla, Roma, Audino (in stampa).
5. Study of a play chosen from among the following: Sofocle, Antigone; Ariosto, La cassaria; Shakespeare, La bisbetica domata; Molière, Il malato immaginario; Goldoni, Il teatro comico; Ibsen, La signora del mare; Čechov, Il gabbiano; Strindberg, Il pellicano; Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore; Brecht, Vita di Galileo; Beckett, Aspettando Godot.
6. Study of the following manual: Roberto Alonge, Franco Perrelli, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo, terza edizione, Torino, Utet, 2019 (chapters 1-12, pp. 1-259, excluding all in-depth studies marked with a lateral line).

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures alongside the analysis of sources of various kinds (archive documents, iconography, theatrical performances, films, video fragments, audio, etc.).
Conferences, sources, readings, and critical texts will be further specified during the course. Some materials, necessary for the preparation of the exam, will be available in the e-learning site. The critical commentary of the theatrical or cinematographic adaptations analysed during the lectures will be part of the examination. A specific bibliography will be provided for ERASMUS students.
N.B.
1. For the study of the manual, a cycle of free-attendance in-depth lessons will be activated, which will be recorded.
2. Students in isolation for Covid 19 are invited to send an e-mail to the teacher.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral interview divided into two parts, to be held on the same day, with final evaluation expressed by a mark out of thirty.

Evaluation criteria

The questions proposed to the candidates will, on the one hand, test their knowledge of the History of theatre with exemplifications offered by one of the dramas of the list; on the other hand, they will test the ability to analyze theoretical concepts and performances following the models showed during the lessons.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade is determined by the average of the scores obtained in the two parts of the exam.

Exam language

Italiano