Text Analysis 1

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Development of student abilities to independently execute a exhaustive analysis of a drama writing and creatively uncover and find some potential for its stage production. Subsequently to work with the writing as material or as inspiration for a performance, set one's own interpretation or ideas.

Mode of study:

Group readings, text analysis, moderated discussion, discussions, review of new texts.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Ability to apply theatrical terminology in practice.

2. Ability to analyse the relevant text, including sub-text.

3. Ability to understand the context (obvious need for self-education)

4. Ability to develop your own interpretation

5. Imagination.

Recommended optional programme components:

One's reading initiative

Course contents:

Working with a text as a condition for its use in the whole of a stage work.

1. Formulation of the direct first impression from reading.

2. Development of the appropriate literature. (Context of the period of the work, a work in a life context and orginal creations).

3. Time-space

4. Figures

5. Central and secondary motives

6. Theme (themes)

7. Language (+ possible translation)

8. Study of corresponding significant stage developments of the text

9. Idea of one's stage treatment.

Recommended or required reading:

J.L.Styan: Prvky dramatu

J. Grossman: Anylýzy

J.C. Carriére: Vyprávět příběh

Myšlení o divadle I,II

H.T. Lehmann: Postdramatické divadlo

+ příslušná literatura, která se vztahuje k rozebíranému textu.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes, exercises, individual consultations.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Independent reading during the semester. Class participation. Completion and presentation of the course paper. Review of classmate work.

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Note:

Elective course for a limited number of AMU students.

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Arts Management (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design - Costumes and Masks (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Theory and criticism (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Theory and criticism (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (compulsory subject, optional subject)
• Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Drama in Education - part-time 2 years (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Arts Management (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Authorial Acting (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design in English (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Drama in Education - part-time 4 years (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Acting for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Authorial Acting - 3 years (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Drama in Education (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Drama in Education - part-time 3 years (M.A.) (optional subject)