Authorship-Dramatization Seminar 1

Tutor:

Irina ULRYCHOVÁ

Synopsis:

This couse is focused upon an introduction to the fundamental possibilities of transforming a prosaic model into a drama form and achieving personal practical experience in the creation of a script meant particularly for children and middle-school theatre. The focus is on practical operations.

Prerequisites:

Orientation in theory literature issues and in the fundamentals of dramaturgy. Ability to discern the dramatic quality of a text and work with it with an idea of possible staging. Active interest in theatre production and the dramaturgy of children and youth ensembles and in some cases one's own experience in their leadership.

Study Objectives:

Be able to select appropriate prosaic texts with good drama potential and based on this, create a script which will respect the fundamental literary quality of the original text as well as support its theatrical and dramatic quality. To know how to manage the group for which the script was intended (age, composition, experience, interest) as well as from one's personal abilities which reflect in the manner selection for transformation of the foundation moving toward the author's share in the final script.

Outline and Syllabus:

Outline:

- Types of dramatizations

- Transformation operations

- Stage transcript

- Dramatization

- Independent work of the students on the script

Syllabus:

- Types of dramatizations: analysis of selected orginal texts and various manners of dramatization (script reading, video); basic dramatization classifications.

- Transformation operations: selection, substitution, amplification, condensing, recomposition, language operations; epic and drama principles; illusory and non-illusory concepts.

- Stage transcript: Collaborative work on a short prosaic text (analysis, proposal of several dramaturgic-directorial concepts, text adaptations).

- Dramatization: Collaborative work on a more extensive prosaic text (analysis, proposal of several dramaturgic-directorial concepts, selection of appropriate transformation operations, setting dialog for situations, creating the script).

- Independent student work on a script: selection of a model with consideration of a particular group, analysis, drama-directorial concept, type of dramatization, transformation operations, script creation, collaborative consultations of individual phases of the work.

Study materials:

KONÝVKOVÁ, Irena

1998 „Kroky a hledání při práci s dětským divadelním souborem“, Tvořivá dramatika IX, č.2-3

MATHAUSOVÁ, Milena

1997 12 pádů scénáristiky (Praha: Victoria Publishing)

NOVOTNÝ, David Jan

1995 Chcete psát scénář? (Praha: FAMU)

PALARČÍKOVÁ, Alena

2002 Tygr v oku aneb O tvorbě inscenace s dětmi a mládeží (Praha: STD)

PANOVOVÁ, Olga

1989 Cesty detskej literatúry na javisko (Bratislava: Mladé letá)

RICHTER, Luděk

1985 Literatura, divadlo a my. Převod literárního díla do loutkového divadla (Praha, Hradec Králové: ÚKVČ)

2004 Pohádka... a divadlo (Praha: DDD)

2005 Od pohádky... ...k pohádce (Od literatury k divadlu) (Praha: DDD)

SLAVÍK, Miroslav

1996 Cesta k divadelnímu tvaru s dětským kolektivem (Praha: ARTAMA-IPOS)

WATTS, Nigel

1996 Teach Yourself Writing a Novel; přel. Rostislav Matuulík, Umění psát (Praha: Grada Publishing, 1998)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)