Introduction to Dramaturgy 1

Tutor:

Irina ULRYCHOVÁ

Synopsis:

A three-semester required course focused on clarifying the fundamental concepts of drama theory and an understanding through the manner in which a theatre work may be conceived and what creates the dramatic activity of its substance. As well, this course deals with how individual elements and procedures are reflected in children's theatre. The lectures are linked to practical activities.

Prerequisites:

An orientation in literary theory at least at the middle school level. An active interest in drama literature and theatre.

Study Objectives:

To learn to use instruments available in drama theory for analysis and interpretation of a drama text and based on this, be able to select an appropriate text (from the viewpoints of its drama and theatrical quality as well as its appropriateness for a particular ensemble). To lay it out and create one's own dramaturgic-directorial concept for its staging. Be able to by knowledge an experience acquired in the creative process to apply to the needs for children's theatre.

Outline and Syllabus:

Outline:

- Dramaturgy as a function of the theatre

- Drama and dramatics

- Situations, drama situations, stage situations.

- Dramatic conflict

- Dramatic events and dramatic plots

- Dramatic figures and stage figures

- Drama genres

- Dramaturgic analysis

- Epic drama and theatre

- Further tendencies of modern drama

- Authorial theatre

Syllabus

- Dramaturgy as a function of the theatre: Origins and development; phases of dramaturgical practice; dramaturgy in children's theatre

- Drama and dramatics: drama as a basic literary type, genre, text elements of a staging; drama criteria

- Situations, drama situations, stage situations: elements of a situation; two concepts of dramatic situations; heirarchy and merits of the differentiation of situations; stage situations

- Dramatic conflict: fundamental classification of conflicts from the viewpoint of the psychological and dramatic; direct and indirect confict; antagonism

- Dramatic events and dramatic plots: analytical drama, intrigues, construction of dramatic events.

- Dramatic figures and stage figures: dramatic figures, type, charactre, stage figures, character

- Drama genres: tragedy, comedy, drama, genre synkretism

- Dramaturgic analysis: time, space, figures, events and manners of its organization, dramatic situations and conflict, theme, poetics.

- Epic drama and theatre: the episodic manner of plot, B. Brecht and his program of epic theatre; The epic in children's theatre.

- Further tendencies of modern drama: a breadown of drama plosts and Cechov; assembling principles; the influence of those process on children's theatre.

- Authorial theatre: „Interpretive“ vs. "Authorial; concept of authorship; changes of position of a literary text in a theatre staging; open/irregular dramaturgy, genesis of staging; children's theatre as authorial theatre.

Study materials:

ARISTOTELÉS

Poetika, přel. Julie Nováková (Praha: Orbis, 1962 - 5. vyd.)

CÍSAŘ, Jan

1990 Vývoj divadelního jazyka (České Budějovice: KKS)

1999 Základy dramaturgie. I. Situace (Praha: DAMU)

2002 Základy dramaturgie. II. Dramatická postava (Praha: DAMU)

FREYTAG, Gustav

1873 Technik des Dramas, přel. Jaroslav Žert, Technika dramatu (Praha: Ústav pro učebné pomůcky průmyslových a odborných škol, ed. Knihovna divadelního prostoru, sv. 6, řada C, 1944)

HOŘÍNEK, Zdeněk

1980 Úvod do praktické dramaturgie (Praha: ÚKVČ)

1991 Drama, divadlo, divák (Brno: JAMU)

1992 Kniha o komedii (Praha: Scéna)

1995 Cesty moderního dramatu (Praha: Studio Y)

1998 Divadlo mezi modernou a postmodernou (Praha: Studio Y)

JOSKOVÁ, Zdena

1999 ?Dramaturgie a dramatika v divadle hraném dětmi?, Tvořivá dramatika X, č. 1

KERR, Walter

1955 How not to write a play (New York: Simon and Schuster); přel. Milan Lukeš, Jak nepsat hru (Praha: Orbis, 1962)

KOVALČUK, Josef

1981 Autorské divadlo 70. let (Praha: ÚKVČ)

1985 Od tématu ke scénáři (Brno: MKS)

1991 ?Znaky autorského divadla? in Divadelní studie (Brno: JAMU)

KRAUS, Karel

2000 Divadlo ve službách dramatu (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

LUKEŠ, Milan

1986 Umění dramatu (Praha: Melantrich)

MACHKOVÁ, Eva

1990 O sani s mnoha hlavami. Dramaturgie a dramatika dětského divadla (Praha: PKS)

PAVIS, Patrice

1996 Dictionnaire du Théâtre; přel. Daniela Jobertová, Divadelní slovník (Slovník divadelních pojmů) (Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2003)

PAVLOVSKÝ, Petr a kol.

2004 Základní pojmy divadla. Teatrologický slovník (Praha: Libri)

RICHTER, Luděk

2003 Praktická dramaturgie v kostce (Praha: DDD)

SZONDI, Peter

1956 Theorie des modernen Dramas 1880-1950; prel. Ernest Marko, Teória modernej drámy (Bratislava: Tatran, 1969)

URBANOVÁ, Alena

1993 Mýtus divadla pro děti (Praha: ARTAMA)

VŠETIČKA, František

1997 Stavba dramatu (Olomouc: UP)

ZICH, Otakar

1987 Estetika dramatického umění. Teoretická dramaturgie (Praha, Panorama - 2. vyd.)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (main subject)