Interpretation Seminar 1

Tutor:

Jana KUDLÁČKOVÁ, Jaroslava ŠIKTANCOVÁ

Synopsis:

The departure point of the seminar is the reading of a selected dramatic text, paying attention not only to its contents, but also to its structure, dialogue construction, chronotope and genre. Next is a detailed analysis opening up different interpretive possibilities. The climax of the process is the gradual finding of one's own interpretation projected onto the dramatic/directing conception, which assumes concrete features including casting.

Prerequisites:

The basic prerequisite is the continuous preparation of students for the seminar and in particular their active participation, climaxing with a term paper.

Study Objectives:

To teach students to read and interpret a dramatic text in depth.

Outline and Syllabus:

1) Reading of a dramatic text: students need to learn to perceive individual dramatic situations, recognize their motivic structure, the construction of dialogue, the author's work with chronotope, the method of presentation of individual characters and the fine tuning of the genre.

2) Detailed analysis of individual text excerpts opens up different versions of their interpretation. Exploring of individual possibilities in the context of the whole play. Awareness of shifts of emphasis and the resulting need for dramatic adaptation of the text.

3) Formulating a dramaturgical/directing concept from specific text material and not from preliminary, phantasmagorical chimeras. Finding ways to realize a specific conception. Ideas about spatial and stage design solutions. Hierarchy of individual means and structure of the production. Possible casting.

Study materials:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	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
Fri
Thu
Fri	místnost K330 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 12:00–14:15 (přednášková par. 1)

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ČD (compulsory subject)