Block Education I. 1

Tutor:

Jan DVOŘÁK, Jiří PITTERMANN

Synopsis:

- learning the basic rules of personnel politics and salary/wage and commissions politics in the theatre

- learning the basic rules for creating a dramaturgic plan+form of the dramaturgic plan

- production beginning

- verifying the ability to work with the given materials

- verifying the ability for an independent presentation on the assigned theme and the ability to respond to questions which ensue on the theme in discussion

Prerequisites:

- participation in the course (min. 70%)

- completion of given coursework during the semester

- oral exam: analysis of written work + discussion

Study Objectives:

The subject's aim is to acquaint the student with the basic rules of personnel, salary/wage and commission procedure in the theatre, to compose dramaturgic plans, to learn the procedures in a production's formulation. To verify the students' ability to acquire and then process information obtained in an internal analysis of a given theatrical issue.

Outline and Syllabus:

Course content

1/ ZS (Elementary School) work schedule + introduction + literature + homework

The baccalaureate study, content and structure of the program and its character; fundamental terminology of theatre; changes in the paradigm in theatre, the theatre in the current concept of its study and focus of inter-disciplines; non-spectator and extra-stage parts of theatre; the creative character of the field

Explanation, commentary and subsequent discussions of audio-visual inspiration based on Czech Television Czech theatre direction and paradoxes of modern Czech theatre, Jaroslav Kvapil

2/ general aspects, genius locii, analysis of the location and environment

Cultural legacy, cultural capital, cultural destination, cultural policy, the culture state; micro-environments/macro-environments; theatre as a community forum, as a city reputation element and part of the revitalization of a location; culture as an image factor.

Audio-visual inspiration: K. H. Hilar

3/modern history and current status of theatre in the Czech Republic

The theatre network and infrastructure; changes in the theatre topography in time; myth and reality, reasoning: the multiplication effect of grants to theatres and other social and economic contributions, theatre as a product, as a part of the cultural industry; actual tendencies and trends: the de-theaterization of theatre and attributes of theatre; the market, contest and competition

Audio-visual inspiration: Jinřich Honzl

4/Theatre production, stage design production, performance production

What is theatre; intention, instance and the constellation; substance and systems enabling theatre creations; theatre promoters; visual (identity) theatre, theatre logistics

Audio visual inspiration: Jiří Frejka

5/ types of theatre operation in the Czech Republic

from the independent project to multiple ensemble theatre; fundamental typology: the theatre as a public cultural service, the private enterprise sector, the non-profit sektor; configuation of the principles of modern democratic society; seasons, independent cultural centers, etc.

Audio visual inspiration: Emil František Burian

6/ legal forms of theatre operations

Legislative framework; maximum freedom and independence in the light of history; rise and fall of theatre; concrete bases (platforms) of theatre operation; lobby - lobbying

Audio visual inspiration: Alfred Radok

7/ Preproduction - production - postproduction

Organizing theatre and its network; author's vision and author's setting; realizing the vision; creative acts and processes; the product and its multiplications; theate and the media; significance of agenting

Audio visual inspiration: Jan Grossman

8/ Atypical projects- coproductions - festivals - international collaborations

EU contexts and globalization processes; so-called cultural tourism; multiculturism

Audo visual inspiration: Evald Schorm

9/ Basic theatre professions

The collective character of theatre - the creative team, the manager - requirements and disposition; the spectator and encouragement

Audi visual inspircation: Miroslav Macháček

Study materials:

valid legislation of the Czech Republic, in particular

the Labour Code

1/1992 Coll., as amended

143/1992 Coll., as amended

and literature interpreting these regulations

samples of internal legal norms for theatres

the script of Bedřich Gregorini „Realising a dramatic plan in the theatre“

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	místnost R311 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 16:30–18:45 (přednášková par. 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

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 produkce (subject determining qualification)