Teaching Workshop: Shakespeare Jailed in an Argentine Prison
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The workshop aims to introduce students to the variegated and lively practice of theatre and dramaturgy in contexts of deprivation of liberty, in the double sense of writing experience (authored or collective, multilingual or translated) and performance (reading, staging, audiovisual experimentation) with a focus on the Latin American context. The workshop will take place in residential form with the possibility of one or more visits to the Bollate prison in order to approach some case studies and experiment the necessary methodologies.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will have to demonstrate their ability to master the different tools and methodologies learnt during the workshop in the context of the collective realisation of a staged reading project from a text translated from Spanish and adapted to the dual academic and prison context.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
After a brief presentation of the lively contemporary Latin American theatrical nebula and the lawyer Alberto Sarlo's 'cartonera' writing project in a maximum-security prison in Florencio Varela (Buenos Aires), we will focus on the translation and dramaturgical adaptation of a 'Shakespearian' play written by a young inmate of the Argentine prison. The experience will be shared with some inmates of the Bollate prison, thanks to a project already launched in this penitentiary under the patronage of the University of Milan as part of the Non solo limiti campaign.
At the end of the workshop, the performance will be publicly presented.
At the end of the workshop, the performance will be publicly presented.
Prerequisites for admission
Knowledge of Latin American scenarios or western contemporary theatre forms. Willingness to cooperate in a prison context also through performance activities.
Teaching methods
Group work, cooperative translation, performance reading exercises.
Teaching Resources
Jacqueline Roumeau Cresta, Teatro testimonial. Cárcel, comunidad, migración y disidencias, Santiago de Chile, Editorial Cuarto Proprio.
Luis Sáinz de Medrano Arce, "El teatro hispanoamericano contemporáneo" PDF
Laura Rodríguez, "Teatro entre rejas. El espacio de libertad y juego en el Complejo Penitenciario San Felipe", Huellas, N° 9, 2016: 141 -149. PDF
Alberto Sarlo (ed.) Shakespeare subversivo. Relatos de escritores del Pabellón 4. PDF
Luis Sáinz de Medrano Arce, "El teatro hispanoamericano contemporáneo" PDF
Laura Rodríguez, "Teatro entre rejas. El espacio de libertad y juego en el Complejo Penitenciario San Felipe", Huellas, N° 9, 2016: 141 -149. PDF
Alberto Sarlo (ed.) Shakespeare subversivo. Relatos de escritores del Pabellón 4. PDF
Assessment methods and Criteria
Active participation in seminar debates, translation, revision and preparation of Italian edition with public reading of play with short final critical report (max. 3000 characters).
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