20705080 - Theatrical Cultures compared

To provide tools to face the study of European and extra-European theatrical cultures in a historical-comparative perspective. To this end, some theatrical experiences will be examined as “models” for the research of the different cultural matrices and of their technical junction points.
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Programme

After tracing a synthetic profile of the relationships between the theatrical cultures of the East and the West, and in particular, between the theaters of figure between Asia and Europe, some specific experiences will be examined, including those of some great theater reformers of the twentieth century, some particular traditions of puppet and oriental figure theaters and those of the Sicilian puppet theater.

Core Documentation

TEXTS and FILMOGRAPHY FOR THE EXAM:

Attending students

1) Valentina Venturini, "Il teatro di Gaetano Greco", Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2018
2) Valentina Venturini, "Nato e cresciuto tra i pupi", Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2017
2) Nicola Savarese, "Il teatro eurasiano", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013
3) Materials edited by the teacher (download the folder "Dispense FREQUENTANTI Culture teatrali comparate 2019/2020" from the download area of the teacher’s website: http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo-uniroma3-it.mirror.uniroma3.it/vventurini/)

Recommended texts*:
Eugenio Barba e Nicola Savarese, "I cinque continenti del teatro. Fatti e leggende della cultura materiale dell’attore", Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2017
(*recommended text means non-mandatory text but recommended for those who want to deepen the study of theaters between East and West)

NON attending students:
1) Valentina Venturini, "Il teatro di Gaetano Greco", Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2018
2) Valentina Venturini, "Nato e cresciuto tra i pupi", Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2017
3) Nicola Savarese, "Teatro e spettacolo tra Oriente e Occidente", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009
4) Materials edited by the teacher (download the folder " Dispense NON FREQUENTANTI Culture teatrali comparate2019/2020" from the download area of the teacher's website: http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo-uniroma3-it.mirror.uniroma3.it/vventurini/)
5) FILM: "Don Giovanni at the Opera dei pupi" by and with Mimmo Cuticchio
[Warnings: this film is available to students at the Dams library, via Ostiense 139, floor -1].

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. As indicated in the list of texts for the exam, for attending students there are differences in the topics and texts in the program. To be considered attending the student must not do more than three absences.

Attendance

Attending students have a different program than non-attending ones. The texts and topics to be studied are different.

Type of evaluation

Oral examination with the teacher. Attending and non-attending students will have to answer at least one question posed orally on each part of the program, with reference to the recommended texts and lectures. The assessment of the learning takes place through an oral test assessed by the minimum mark of 18/30, corresponding to the basic knowledge of all parts of the program and of the technical language, to the maximum mark of 30/30 with honors, which is equivalent to excellent mastery of the subjects, excellent or excellent property of language, excellent or excellent analytical ability.