Authorship-Dramatization Seminar 3

Tutor:

Irina ULRYCHOVÁ

Synopsis:

This course in aimed at an introduction to the fundamental possible transformations of a text into a drama form and acquiring personal practical experience in creating of a script for a definite group, particularly children's and middle-school theatre. The focus is on practical activities.

Prerequisites:

Fundamental knowledge of literary theory issues and of basic dramaturgy; ability to sense the dramatic quality of a text and work with it with a idea of its possible staging; an active interest in theatre and the dramaturgy for children's and youth ensembles, personal experience in leading them.

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:

Curriculum:

- Types of dramatizations

- Transformational operations

- Stage transcription

- Dramatization

- Independent work of the students on the scripts

Syllabus:

- Types of dramatizations: analysis of the selected original text and various manners of dramatization (scriptreading, video); fundamental dramatization classification.

- Transformation operations: selection, substitution, amplification, condensation, recomposition, language operations; epic and dramatic principles; illusion and non-ilusion concepts.

- Stage transcription: cooperative work on a short text (analysis, proposal of a number of dramaturgic-directorial concepts, text editing).

- Dramatization: cooperative practice on a larger text (analysis, proposal of a number of dramaturgic-directorial concepts, selection of appropriate tranformation operations, dialoging situations, script creation).

- Independent student work on a script: selection of the text with consideration of a particular group, analysis, dramaturgic-directorial concept, dramatization types, transformation operations, script creation, collective consultation in individual phases.

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)