Introduction to Dramaturgy 1

Tutor:

Irina ULRYCHOVÁ

Synopsis:

A two-semester required course focused on illustrating fundamental concepts in drama theory and comprehending the manners in which a dramatic work may be conceived and what creates the substance of its dramatic effect. As well this course deals with how individual elements and procedures are reflected in children's theatre. The lectures are connected with practical activities.

Prerequisites:

Orientation in literary theory at a primary school level. An active interest in drama literature and theatre.

Study Objectives:

Learning to use tools offered by drama theory for analysis and interpretation of a drama text and on that basis be able to select an appropriate text (from the viewpoint of its dramatic and theatrical quality as well as appropriateness for a particular ensemble). Interpret and create one's own drama directed concept for stage production. To be able to take away knowledge and experience through the creative channel and apply to the needs of childrens theatre.

Outline and Syllabus:

Outline:

- Dramaturgy as a function of theatre

- Drama and Dramatics

- Situations, dramatic situations, stage situations

- Dramatic conflict

- Dramatic events and plots

- Dramatic figures and stage characters

- Drama genres

- Dramaturgical analysis

- Epic drama and theatre

- Further tendencies of modern drama

- Writer's theatre

Syllabus:

Outline:

- Dramaturgy as a function of theatre: origin and development; phases of dramaturgy practice in childrens theatre.

- Drama and Dramatics: drama as a fundamental type of literature, genre, text components of staging; dramatic criteria.

- Situations, dramatic situations, stage situations: situation components; two concepts of dramatic situations; hierarchy and value differentiations of situations; stage situations.

- Dramatic conflict: Fundamental classification of conflicts from the psychological and dramatic viewpoints; direct and indirect conflicts; clashes

- Dramatic events and plots: Analytical drama, entanglements, building of dramatic events.

- Dramatic figures and stage characters: dramatic figures, types, characters; stage figures, characters.

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

- Dramaturgical analysis: time, space, figures, event and types of its organization, dramatic situations and conflict, theme, poetics

- Epic drama and theatre: Episodic manner of plots; Bertold Brecht and his epic theatre program; epicness in children's theatre.

- Further tendencies of modern drama: Layout of dramatic plots and Cechov; assembly principles; influence of those procedures on childrens theatre.

- Authorial theatre: Interpretive v. Authorial; Concept of Authorial theatre; change of situation of a literary text in 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 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 (subject determining qualification)