Theory of Theatre and its Components 1

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This course combines lectures and classes (2 classes weekly) developing knowledge and skills acquired in the bachelor's study of theatre and drama theory to a new level at which the interest of the student is focused on general issues and on the other hand, issues of individual trades (theory, directing, dramaturgy theory, acting theory).

The course syllabus is created by questions in the master's exam in the history and theory of acting, formulated to prompt brief considerations supported by examples; those considerations should rise from, not only, acquired knowledge, but also, a consideration of one’s own experience in stage and staging practice.

Questions in the master's exam in drama arts theory and history for all DAMU studies:

1. Drama (stage) arts from the perspective of its cultural, aesthetic, and possibly psycho-social function: drama arts as a cultural factor, play, image, entertainment and/or self-expression.
2. Drama arts in the Western and Eastern cultural traditions.
3. Drama, dramatic, dramatics in “civil” life, in education and the arts.
4. Theatre: institution, building, space, ensemble, operation, manner of communication, possibly, expression and/or arts.
5. Drama and theatricality (staging): drama (not only in the sense of a theatre play) and theatre (stage), theatricality and spectacle, stage and theatricality, obvious and hidden.
6. Acting (“staging”) in life and acting (stage, and by extension dramatic) arts.
7. Mime: (dramatic, stage) arts as an image and expression.
8. Types and genres of drama (stage) arts from the perspective of supply (creative intentions of those who do it) and demand (audience “needs” and tendencies).
9. Types and genres of drama (stage) arts in connection with its elements and habits, and possible manners of their arrangement.
10. The relationship of the stage and auditorium in the mirror (completed and possible) changes in the theatre space.
11. Acting role recitation, comedy production and self-expression; actor and player, and comedian and actor, professional and amateur, actor and entertainer.
12. Classical, Romance, Realism: attitudes and styles, periods and tendencies, common cultural sources and local period phenomenon.
13. Archaic (traditional), modern and contemporary (post-modern): period, attitude, art.
14. Trade and enthusiasm: requirements and particulars of the creative process in drama arts and its imaginative and intellectual moments, intuition and trade; conventions as a requirement and barrier to creation.
15. Drama arts and the development of media.

Learning outcomes

Systematic reflection on basic problems and questions connected with the emergence and development of dramatic art, analysis of concrete examples from contemporary stage practice.

Prerequisites and other requirements

The course ends with a text on knowledge learned, taking into account tasks completed dealing with at least one topic in the form of a coherent essay (ca. 3 to 5 standard pages), and reflection on one's own practical activity on stage.

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Fischer-Lichte, Erika - Theatre, sacrifice, ritual: exploring forms of political theatre

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Three decades OISTAT

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Toshio, Kawatake - Kabuki: baroque fuszon of the arts

Towse, Ruth - A Handbook of cultural economics

Turner, Victor - The anthropology of performance

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Unwin, Stephen - So you want to be a theatre director?

Vansina, Jan - Oral tradition as history

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Warre, Michael - Designing and making stage scenery

Warshow, Robert - The immediate experience: movies, comics, theatre and other aspects of popular culture

Wilbur, Robert H. - The complete guide to nonprofit management

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Wilson, Stephen - Information arts: intersections of art, science and technology

Wolford, Lisa; Schechner, Richard (ed.) - The Grotowski sourcebook [1997]

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Zarrilli, Phillip B. - Psychophysical acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski

Evaluation methods and criteria

Completed with an exam checking the acquired knowledge considering the submitted task of developing at least one of the topics in the form of a related presentation (cca. 3-5 pages), self-review of stage activities.

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Directing for Dramatic Theatre in English (M.A.) (Required subjects)