Teaching Stories and Cultures of Theatrical Spaces belongs to the set of educational activities that characterise the “Theatre” curriculum of the Degree course in Disciplines of the Arts, Music and Performance. The obligatory starting point of the course is the definition of its object of study and the recognition of different types of sources and documents on which it is based.
The course purpose is to introduce the study of theatre in the history, prioritising the analysis of cultural processes leading each civilisation to build specific places, designed in certain ages for the institution/monument theatre and in others for the representative forms. The morphology of these places was strictly conjoined with the society, historical period and geography in which it was born.
The lessons aim to achieve the following educational objectives:
1) to enhance the knowledge of some of the historiographic knots linked to the concept of space in theatre: architecture, scenography, the relationship between actors and spectators, the different levels of the dramaturgy;
2) to stimulate students’ critical and interpretative skills by providing them with tools and sources of analysis of different nature and origin;
3) contextualise the study of theatre, in the frame of the specific and historical changes undergone by civilisations throughout time.