Teaching Workshop: Ancient Theatre On Contemporary Scene
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
The laboratory aims to enable students to choose and analyse the most relevant adaptations and stagings of classical drama among contemporary productions. The workshop will focus specifically on the most relevant productions to highlight the difference between a historicizing, philological approach and a more domesticating one.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the workshop, the students is expected to proficiently use the critical skills that he/she will have acquired to frame adaptations within the wider context of contemporary drama. Students are expected to analyse autonomously aspects related to dramaturgy such as translation, adaptation and rewriting, as well as the director's choices in the staging of a classical text.
Lesson period: Second semester
Single course
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The workshop will focus on the diverse ways of staging classical drama in contemporary theatre. First of all, it will address both dramaturgy and direction, paying particular attention to specific practices (translation, adaptation, rewriting). Secondly, it will focus on the criteria underlying the critical analysis of the play. Thirdly, the analysis of selected stagings of classical texts (by Ronconi, Castri, Castellucci, Latella) will illustrate the main trends in contemporary staging of classical drama.
Prerequisites for admission
Students with no previous knowledge of classical drama are expected to read at least one Greek tragedy (preferably Oresteia by Aeschylus or Sophocles' Oedipus Rex)
Teaching methods
The first part of the workshop will consist of lectures. The second part will be devoted to the viewing of stagings and debate. At the end of the workshop students will have to submit a short review essay on one of the stagings viewed and discussed in the second part of the workshop.
Teaching Resources
D. Susanetti, Il teatro greco. Feste e spettacoli, eroi buffoni, Carocci, Roma 2018 is recomanded but not mandatory.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students are required to submit a review essay on one of the plays viewed and discussed in class.
- University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Giovannelli Maddalena Musil
Shifts:
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Professor:
Giovannelli Maddalena MusilProfessor(s)