Interpretation Seminar 4

Subject guarantor:

Daria ULLRICHOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Daria ULLRICHOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Mastery of basic dramaturgy skills for working with a drama.

Mode of study:

Classses, course paper and its defense.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Required is the continual preparations of students for classes and particularly their participation. Completed with a course paper.

Recommended optional programme components:

Continuous monitor of production efforts on personal interpretations of classic works.

Course contents:

The starting point of the course is the reading of selected dramas with attention to not only the content but also the structure, dialogue structure, chronotope and genre. A subsequent detailed analysis opens various possible interpretations. Completing the process is a gradual investigation of one's own interpretation, projected onto a dramaturgic-directorial concept which acquires a particular form including the casting. Work during the course proceeds in the following stages:

1) Reading a drama: students need to be instructed in noticing individual drama situations, recognize their motivation structure, dialoge structure, writers work with the chronotope, manner of presenting individual figures and the genre mood.

2) Detailed analysis of individual drama situations opening up various possible interpretations

3) Subsequent consideration of various possible interpretations in the context of the whole play.

4) Accenting individual significances and motives and the need for dramaturgical modifications arising from them.

5) Creation of the dramaturgy-directing concept of a text, and not from preliminary speculations.

6) Investigating potential of how to implement the dramaturgy-directing concept.

7) Considerations of the spatial treatment.

8) Variations in casting

9) Hierarchy of individual elements and production rhythm.

Recommended or required reading:

Knowledge of text by prof. Jana Císaře: Praktická dramaturgie I, II.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Students, in class, read and analyse plays in detail. The instructor explains individual analysis procedures and gradually guides students to an understanding of the entire process.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Class participation. Competion of the course paper.

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Further information:

Course may be repeated

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)