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 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.
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Programme
The course offers an insight into the meaning of theatre-making and the dialogue between writing and practices through some salient cases characterising that characterise the 20th century European scene and its look at theatrical cultures of the past.One part of the course focuses on 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.
Prerequisiti
No prior knowledge is required to attend the courseCore Documentation
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
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Attendance
Attendance is recommended but not obligatoryType of evaluation
The examination is oral teacher profile teaching materials
- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Programme
The course will focus on the following topics:- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
Prerequisiti
NoneCore Documentation
Examination Readings for Attending Students:- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Type of evaluation
Oral examCanali
teacher profile teaching materials
One part of the course focuses on 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.
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Programme
The course offers an insight into the meaning of theatre-making and the dialogue between writing and practices through some salient cases characterising that characterise the 20th century European scene and its look at theatrical cultures of the past.One part of the course focuses on 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.
Prerequisiti
No prior knowledge is required to attend the courseCore Documentation
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
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Attendance
Attendance is recommended but not obligatoryType of evaluation
The examination is oral teacher profile teaching materials
- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Programme
The course will focus on the following topics:- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
Prerequisiti
NoneCore Documentation
Examination Readings for Attending Students:- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Type of evaluation
Oral examCanali
teacher profile teaching materials
One part of the course focuses on 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.
Cristina Valenti, Storia del Living Theatre: conversazione con Judith Malina, Titivillus, Pisa
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Mutuazione: 20710328 TEATRO, SPETTACOLO, PERFORMANCE in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R A - L MARENZI SAMANTHA
Programme
The course offers an insight into the meaning of theatre-making and the dialogue between writing and practices through some salient cases characterising that characterise the 20th century European scene and its look at theatrical cultures of the past.One part of the course focuses on 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.
Prerequisiti
No prior knowledge is required to attend the courseCore Documentation
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
Antonin Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino
Dossier. I «Cahiers Renaud-Barrault». Quattro studi per una ricognizione. A cura di Cecilia Carponi, Samantha Marenzi, Francesca Romana Rietti, “Teatro e Storia”, n. 47, 2026 (open access)
Jerzy Grotowski, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma
Raimondo Guarino, Il teatro nella storia. Gli spazi, le culture, la memoria, Bari Laterza (ebook)
Non-attending students will add the Dossier Antigone. The dossier can be downloaded from the course's Teams channel
Attendance
Attendance is recommended but not obligatoryType of evaluation
The examination is oral teacher profile teaching materials
- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Mutuazione: 20710328 TEATRO, SPETTACOLO, PERFORMANCE in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R M - Z SOFIA GABRIELE
Programme
The course will focus on the following topics:- The art of Eleonora Duse and the tradition of the Great Actors (Grandi Attori) theatre
- The theatrical revolutions of the twentieth century
- Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
- The works of Edward Gordon Craig and his network of relationships within twentieth-century theatre
- The 1912 production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Contemporary theatre and performance practices
Prerequisiti
NoneCore Documentation
Examination Readings for Attending Students:- Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse. Storie e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale, Rome: Carocci, 2023.
- Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Rome: Viella, 2017.
- Franco Ruffini, Stanislavskij. Dal lavoro dell’attore al lavoro su di sé, Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2003.
- Gabriele Sofia, Il sipario è la nostra bandiera. Craig, Lees, Guilbert fra Grande Guerra e fascismo, Rome: Carocci, 2025.
- William Shakespeare, Amleto; preferably in the edition edited by Alessandro Serpieri, Venice: Letteratura Universale Marsilio.
Additional Reading for Non-Attending Students:
- Edward Gordon Craig, L’arte del teatro. Il mio teatro, edited by Ferruccio Marotti, Cue Press, 2016.
Type of evaluation
Oral exam