Post-drama 1

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Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students are introduced to some aspects of post-drama theatre through lectures devoted to partial issues in the composition and structure of important works arranged in that theatre trend. The students learn with these works in independent study and in screenings and analyses during lectures. For students in creative studies, aside from inspiration, should contribute to an awareness of new limits and the responsibility of the artistic element of a theatre piece, particularly, dramaturgy, directing and set-design.

Mode of study:

Contact.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Completion of the lecture series in the History of Theatre in a Western Cultural Context I and II or comparable course at another school.

Course contents:

The aim of the lecture series and analysis classes is to, in part, orient students in the issues of „fashionable theatre post-modernity“ which includes contemporary theatre discourse, and provides analytical tools enabling for a critical approach for reviewing works and allows for the distinguishing of creative originals from conventialized „alternative“ eclectivism.

Issues:

Drama objectivity and post-dramatic subjectivism.

Chronotopic collapse of a post-dramatic piece.

Lyotard's crisis of narration and post-modern scepticism towards a story.

Drama character crisis: from the inter-subjective presentation to intra-subjective self-experience.

Distrust towards a causual nexus, synchronicity and chaos theory.

Logo and depiction. text crisis. depiction ambiguity. Performance and installation.

Story and time

Basic works:

August Stridberg: A Dream Play

Eugene Ionesco: Exit The King

Roland Schimmelpfenig: Arabian Night

Sarah Kane: Psychsis 4.48

Tadeusz Kantor: Wielopole, Wielopole.

Andrej Tarkovskij: The Mirror

Christoph Marthaler: Murx den Europaener!

Recommended or required reading:

Aristoteles: Poetika, překlad M. Mráz, Praha 2008

Zich, Otakar: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1968

Fischer-Lichte, Erika: Estetika performativity, Mníšek pod Brdy 2011

Petříček, Miroslav: Myšlení obrazem, Praha 2009

Lehmann, Hans Thies: Postdramatické divadlo, Bratislava 2007

Knopová, Elena: Svet kontroverznej drámy, Bratislava 2011

Lyotard, Jean Francois: O postmodernismu, Praha 1993

Prigogine, Ilja, Stengerssova, Isabella: Řád z chaosu, Praha 2001

Syřišťová, Eva: Puklý čas, Praha 2005

Assessment methods and criteria:

80% attendance, activivity in class, written review and/or oral exam.

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Note:

If less than 3 students register for the course, it may be cancelled.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

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