Object and Space 1

Tutor:

Karel VOSTÁREK

Synopsis:

This course expands the perceiving of space and its theatrical potential, investigating potential which various spaces and space arrangements offer for theatre and para-theatrical activity.

Prerequisites:

Active participation in seminars and exercises. Each student will prepare in the seminar a set design concept (with emphasis on the space) of a staging or project in a non-theatre space.

Study Objectives:

The aim of the course is the systematic investigation of a space as a component of theatre with its potential and characteristics.

Outline and Syllabus:

- A space and its characteristics.

- Real, stage and drama space.

- The space of dramatic events.

- Types of theatre spaces.

- The influence of the shape of the theatre space on the staging.

Study materials:

MAREŠOVÁ, Sylva (ed.)

1987 Naše současná loutkářská scénografie. Scénografie 55 (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

PöRTNER, Paul

1960 Experiment Theater; přel. Jan Rak, Experimentální divadlo (Praha: Orbis, 1965)

PTÁČKOVÁ, Věra

1982 Česká scénografie XX. století (Praha: Odeon)

1990 „Drama života a světa Růženy Vackové“, in O divadle 1986-9 (Praha: LN)

RICHTER, Luděk

1997 Od předmětu k loutce, od loutky k divadlu (Praha: DDD-ARTAMA-IPOS)

ZAVARSKÝ, Ján

1993 Scénografia. Kapitolky zo scénografie (Bratislava: Osvetový ústav)

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

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 (optional subject)
• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova - tříleté komb. (optional subject)