Fundamentals of Post-Modern Dramaturgy 1

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The lecture and analysis class aims are to introduce students with theory origins of the review of so called post-modern theatre, also the creation and key works of European and Czech actors. Under post-modern is contained:

1. present students a holistic dramaturgical approach to a text and text artefacts or concepts of contemporary „post-drama theatre.“

2. to introduce students to issues of time, space and the time causal principle of the struturing of evens, issues of synchronicity in contemporary art, application of that knowledge in relation to drama.

3. analysis of canonic dramas, through the analyses of some productions of post-drama theatre and possible reviews of some contemporary theatre texts provided to the students of the potential and limits of drama in post-modern theatre.

Mode of study:

Lectures and audio-visual screenings with related analysis classes.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Knowledge of Czech and World drama literature at the bachelor's level.

2. Knowledge of Theatrology at the bachelor's level.

3. Analysis and review skills.

Recommended optional programme components:

Monitor of progressive tendencies in theatre, film and literature.

Course contents:

This course is intended for Directing and Dramaturgy master's students introducing issues in, so called, post-modern theatre from the viewpoint of drama writing. Through chronotopy, temporality, causality and synchronicity the students are introduced to the theory beginnings of the activities of the dramaturgist in post-dramatic theatre. The is an analysis of the time and space of some canonic dramas prior to an analysis of contemporary drama writing.

1. Story and purpose, presentation of a story, drama and theatre.

2. So called story crisis, post-modern story (Lehmann, Sarazac, Mueller, Kantor, Wilson, Mathaler, Krekatoer)

3. Story and time-space, Breakdowns in time-space in reality (modern psychology) and in drama.

4. Changes in time-space as material for canonical drama (Aischylos, Shakespeare, Calderon)

5. Events and persistence - issues in time-space in the moderne (Strindberg, Ionesco, Beckett).

6. Plot crisis, situations and characters, inter-subjective drama, chaotology, causality and synchronicity (Duerrenmatt, Kane, Mayenburg).

The course researches changes in the function of dramaturgy in these types of theatre phenomena and particularly with a view to the „post-dramatic“ paradigms in literature and theatre works. The research will also be a „deconstruction“ of the Aristotlelian concept of drama, changes in the concept of narration, events, situations and drama characters, issues of time-space, causality, synchronicity and other phenomena related to the development of contemporary drama.

Recommended or required reading:

Aristoteles: Poetika

Carriére, Jean-Calude: Vyprávět příběh. Praha 1995

Deleuze, Gilles: Bergsonismus. Praha 2006

Esslin, Martin: Theatre of the absurd. Londýn 1961

Etlík, Jaroslav: Divadlo jako zakoušení. In Divadelní revue 1/1999

Freyteag, Gustav: Technika dramatu. Praha 1944

Heidegger, Martin: Bytí a čas. Praha 1996

Jung, Carl Gustav: O synchronicitě. In Jung,V.G.: Výbor z díla, svazek II, Brno 1997

Lehmann, Hans-Thies: Postdramatické divadlo. Bratislava 2007

Prigogine, Ilya, Stegnersová, Isabele: Řád z chaosu. Praha 2001

Ricoeur, Paul: Čas a vyprávění, 3 svazky. Praha 2000, 2002,2007

Syřišťová, Eva: Puklý čas a smích absolutní vlády. Brno 2005

Zich, Otakar: Estetika dramatického umění. Praha 1986

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures combined with screenings and classes.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Participation in analysis classes, 60% attendance in lectures, one's essay over the issues (analysis of a post-dramatic work) and discussions about it.

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Further information:

Course may be repeated

This course is an elective for all students of this school

No schedule has been prepared for this course

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)