Dramaturgy of Post-dramatic Theatre 2

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Subject guarantor:

Jan VEDRAL

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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!

Mode of study:

Lectures, classes, written review and its defense, oral exam.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Course is intended for Drama Theatre Dept. directing and dramaturgy students. The requirement is completion of the courses Theatre Terminology, Theatre in the History of Western Culture, Theatre in the History of Czech Culture (or the lecture series History of Czech Theatre and History of World Theatre I & II).

Course contents:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

Basic writings:

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, activity in class, paper and oral exam.

Course web page:

Note:

Tasks will be assigned by the instructor in class.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

	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	room S202 Zasedací místnost (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 17:00–18:30 (přednášková par. 1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	17:00–18:30		Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (required subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (required subject)