This course aims to provide students with tools of theoretical and historical knowledge concerning artistic, social, material and relational aspects of theatre arts, in the broader sense of the performative dimensions of human behaviour. The central objective is a wide and inclusive knowledge of the past and present of the scenic arts, oriented to enable the student to recognize, to experience and to activate creative processes, research actions and skills of practical organization within the horizon of performing arts. The first part of the course provides direct approaches to texts, profiles, documents and phenomena that during the last century changed the notion of theatre and transformed traditions, skills, values, concepts and terms of the theatre practices. In the final part the course will share materials, documents, meetings and fieldworks, in order to orientate the students to take part in ongoing projects of their cultural context.
Curriculum
Canali
teacher profile teaching materials
One part of the course focuses on Elizabethan theatre and its intertwining of stage practices and dramaturgy. Another focus is devoted to the reading of a play and the reinterpretations that take it from antiquity to the heart of the 20th century: Sophocles' Antigone will be read in its original and Brecht's version. Finally, the course will focus on some books that have inspired 20th century theatre culture, transforming the relationship between text and performance and between theory and practice. In this perspective, the experiences of Artaud, Grotowski and the Living Theatre will be examined.
Antigone. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di Maria Grazia Ciani, Marsilio, Venezia (o in nuova edizione Feltrinelli, Milano)
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Anotonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Non-attending students will add a text to be agreed with the lecturer
Programme
The course offers an insight into the meaning of theatre-making and the dialogue between writing and practices through some salient cases characterising the European stage in different periods and contexts, with a focus on episodes from the modern and contemporary ages.One part of the course focuses on Elizabethan theatre and its intertwining of stage practices and dramaturgy. Another focus is devoted to the reading of a play and the reinterpretations that take it from antiquity to the heart of the 20th century: Sophocles' Antigone will be read in its original and Brecht's version. Finally, the course will focus on some books that have inspired 20th century theatre culture, transforming the relationship between text and performance and between theory and practice. In this perspective, the experiences of Artaud, Grotowski and the Living Theatre will be examined.
Core Documentation
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro elisabettiano, Carocci, RomaAntigone. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di Maria Grazia Ciani, Marsilio, Venezia (o in nuova edizione Feltrinelli, Milano)
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Anotonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Non-attending students will add a text to be agreed with the lecturer
Attendance
Attendance is recommended but not obligatoryType of evaluation
The examination is oral. teacher profile teaching materials
Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri, Viella
Doriana Legge, Un Novecento scomodo. Il teatro di Emma Gramatica, Tatiana Pavlova e Anna Fougez, Bulzoni, 2022
Laura Mariani, Le attrici nel teatro italiano dell'Ottocento, Viella 2024
Mirella Schino, Profilo del teatro italiano, Carocci
Programme
The course focuses on the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly following the thread of the protagonism of actresses. In this period, women in the theatre have a role that is impossible for other women: they can earn, command, be eminent artists, be points of reference.Core Documentation
Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, CarocciMirella Schino, L’età dei maestri, Viella
Doriana Legge, Un Novecento scomodo. Il teatro di Emma Gramatica, Tatiana Pavlova e Anna Fougez, Bulzoni, 2022
Laura Mariani, Le attrici nel teatro italiano dell'Ottocento, Viella 2024
Mirella Schino, Profilo del teatro italiano, Carocci
Reference Bibliography
Francesca Simoncini, Eleonora Duse capocomica, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011 Donatella Orecchia, La prima Duse Mariani Laura, Il tempo delle attrici: emancipazionismo e teatro in Italia fra Ottocento e Novecento, Bologna: Mongolfiera, 1991 Mariani Laura, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette e l’arte del travestimento, Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996 Martin-Fugier Anne, Comédiennes. Les actrices en France au XIXe siècle, Paris: Seuil, 2008 Meldolesi Claudio, Pensare l’attore, Mirella Schino and Ferdinando Taviani eds., Roma: Bulzoni, 2013 Davis Tracy C., Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture, London-New York: Routledge, 1991 Evain Aurore, L'apparition des actrices professionnelles en Europe, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001 Gale Maggie B. and Gardner Vivien eds., Women, Theatre, and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies, New York: Palgrave, 2000Attendance
attendance is not compulsoryType of evaluation
Questions about the course and the books for the attendants, about the books for the not attendantsCanali
teacher profile teaching materials
One part of the course focuses on Elizabethan theatre and its intertwining of stage practices and dramaturgy. Another focus is devoted to the reading of a play and the reinterpretations that take it from antiquity to the heart of the 20th century: Sophocles' Antigone will be read in its original and Brecht's version. Finally, the course will focus on some books that have inspired 20th century theatre culture, transforming the relationship between text and performance and between theory and practice. In this perspective, the experiences of Artaud, Grotowski and the Living Theatre will be examined.
Antigone. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di Maria Grazia Ciani, Marsilio, Venezia (o in nuova edizione Feltrinelli, Milano)
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Anotonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Non-attending students will add a text to be agreed with the lecturer
Programme
The course offers an insight into the meaning of theatre-making and the dialogue between writing and practices through some salient cases characterising the European stage in different periods and contexts, with a focus on episodes from the modern and contemporary ages.One part of the course focuses on Elizabethan theatre and its intertwining of stage practices and dramaturgy. Another focus is devoted to the reading of a play and the reinterpretations that take it from antiquity to the heart of the 20th century: Sophocles' Antigone will be read in its original and Brecht's version. Finally, the course will focus on some books that have inspired 20th century theatre culture, transforming the relationship between text and performance and between theory and practice. In this perspective, the experiences of Artaud, Grotowski and the Living Theatre will be examined.
Core Documentation
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro elisabettiano, Carocci, RomaAntigone. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di Maria Grazia Ciani, Marsilio, Venezia (o in nuova edizione Feltrinelli, Milano)
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Anotonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Non-attending students will add a text to be agreed with the lecturer
Attendance
Attendance is recommended but not obligatoryType of evaluation
The examination is oral. teacher profile teaching materials
Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri, Viella
Doriana Legge, Un Novecento scomodo. Il teatro di Emma Gramatica, Tatiana Pavlova e Anna Fougez, Bulzoni, 2022
Laura Mariani, Le attrici nel teatro italiano dell'Ottocento, Viella 2024
Mirella Schino, Profilo del teatro italiano, Carocci
Programme
The course focuses on the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly following the thread of the protagonism of actresses. In this period, women in the theatre have a role that is impossible for other women: they can earn, command, be eminent artists, be points of reference.Core Documentation
Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, CarocciMirella Schino, L’età dei maestri, Viella
Doriana Legge, Un Novecento scomodo. Il teatro di Emma Gramatica, Tatiana Pavlova e Anna Fougez, Bulzoni, 2022
Laura Mariani, Le attrici nel teatro italiano dell'Ottocento, Viella 2024
Mirella Schino, Profilo del teatro italiano, Carocci
Reference Bibliography
Francesca Simoncini, Eleonora Duse capocomica, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011 Donatella Orecchia, La prima Duse Mariani Laura, Il tempo delle attrici: emancipazionismo e teatro in Italia fra Ottocento e Novecento, Bologna: Mongolfiera, 1991 Mariani Laura, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette e l’arte del travestimento, Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996 Martin-Fugier Anne, Comédiennes. Les actrices en France au XIXe siècle, Paris: Seuil, 2008 Meldolesi Claudio, Pensare l’attore, Mirella Schino and Ferdinando Taviani eds., Roma: Bulzoni, 2013 Davis Tracy C., Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture, London-New York: Routledge, 1991 Evain Aurore, L'apparition des actrices professionnelles en Europe, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001 Gale Maggie B. and Gardner Vivien eds., Women, Theatre, and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies, New York: Palgrave, 2000Attendance
attendance is not compulsoryType of evaluation
Questions about the course and the books for the attendants, about the books for the not attendants