Literary Preparation 4

Tutor:

Miloslav KLÍMA, Karel, Frant. TOMÁNEK

Synopsis:

Metaphor; adaptation; stage equivalent of a poem; prose poems; small literary forms with the emphasis on the adaptation, dramatisation.

Prerequisites:

1. Creative authorial skills

2. Capacity for analysis, reflection and synthesis

3. Deepening knowledge of Czech, world, and other literature

4. Individual steps in the relevant study levels follow each other without overlapping

Study Objectives:

Literary preparation of a text for production is a creative ability and dramaturgic skill which it is essential that students recognise in their own carefully considered projects. It isn?t an independent literary creation but rather a piece of work with a text for the production under consideration. Each case must therefore be treated as an original. The whole cycle is thus divided into six semesters.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

1. Situation

2. Story

3. Theme

4. Metaphor

5. Composition

6. Self-expression

Syllabus:

1. Situation; dramatic situation; from a record of reality through the stage image;

surprising solutions, textual economy; conflict

2. Story; ability to tell a story in an original treatment of the subject;

limited to a small form without technical support, 2 - 3 actors

3. Theme; interpretation through a major revision of the text, montage of different texts by the same author, compilation of texts by different authors, collage from various source materials, the hinge : the theme

4. Metaphor; stage adaptation; stage equivalent of a poem; dramatisation of small prose pieces with metaphorical resolution

5. Composition; transfer of myth, legend, epic, saga to a stage form with the defining interpretation coming in the thematic or associative resolution

6. Self-expression; free authorial work consulted with the teacher as a part of a personal or team stage project

Specific literary works from which a cycle is created come from student proposals corrected by the teacher; the breadth of the proposals and their interest also help foster the ability to choose an idea which reflects the set assignment. Each lecturer proceeds in this structure in concrete form according to the character and ability of the students.

Study materials:

J. C. Carriere: Vyprávět příběh

W. Kerr: Jak nepsat hru

L. Suchařípa: The Rules of the Game

J. Huizinga: Homo ludens

E. Fink: The Play as a Symbol of the World

H. Caillois: Plays and People

J. Vostrý: Dramaturgy in Practice; The Artistic Image; Studies in Dramatisation

B. Brecht: Myšlenky

J. Grotowski: Nový zákon divadla; K Chudému divadlu

P. Brook: Empty Space; Fixed Point Prázdný prostor; Pevný bod

J. L. Styan: Components of Drama; Black Comedy Prvky dramatu; Černá komedie

F. Dürrenmatt: Stati a projevy o divadle

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost R601 Pracovna pedagogů () KLÍMA M. 10:30–12:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ALD (subject determining qualification)