Theory and Practice of (written) Dramatic Theatre 1

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Subject guarantor

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Name of lecturer(s)

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

This course, in classes, is to guide students to an understanding of sources and constitutive elements of drama in the sense of drama theatre through linking their own attempts st writing drama texts with theory reviews of the most significant tendencies in modern drama. In this case, this covers, primarily, the creation of a stage project in phases equalling the drama text. This corresponds to the two origins of review on which instruction is based and lies in the analysis of appropriate concepts as well as in the analysis of the student's own work whose issues become the field of one's (artistic) verification of those concepts.

Mode of study

Classes, completed paper.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Requirement and conditions are student participation in all classes and timely completion of assigned tasks.

Course contents

The instruction for directors and dramaturgists in the 3rd year of bachelor's study, in the form of classes is to guide them to an understanding of the sources and constituitive elements of drama theatre in the sense of drama, that is, drama in the sense of drama theatre. The necessity of theory reflection remains the most diverse in the modern world of theatre types from which is derived a number related types in other media, and continues to be updated in the situation of escalating common staging. The consequence of this phenomenon, linked to the consequence of the contemporary placement of the arts on all inclusive markets - forces drama theatre, in the interest of maintaining its own possible contribution and the related interest of potential viewers, to find its own space. This is a space which remains, in spite of efforts of normative aesthetics, never lasting, unbound by some borders; this is a space which is not defined by material or formal styles because it is identical to needs in life from which drama as expression and an effort to understand the drama of the world and life arose. This corresponds to a manner of instruction which is sufficient to a higher arts school, because it comes from its own drama feeling of the talented students from which is requested expression corresponding to the selected study field.

Instruction in the Winter semester includes this range of concepts/problems:

1. Double sources and manner of staging (mimus and drama) and their mutual relationship in the development of Western culture from the antique to Enlightenment and from a preference to book culture to the media of today.
2. Lyric, epic and dramatic: their particulars and interference in reation to the differentiation of narration and pretending and the development of their „pure“ and „imagined“ types in theatre and in film
3. Dramatic and epic: story and plot as developing a story, event and action, hero and individual person in a situation, action and decision, motivation and thematization, episode and dramatization (in the sense of format).
4. Dramatic and lyric: objective depiction and subjective attitude, antique sculpture depiction and Jewish-Christian sense, presenting and experiencing, Hilar's requirements of lyric actors.
5. Drama and word, respectively, literature: oral and literary; word and gesture/ gestus; sematics and prosody; Vetruscan hypothesis of the dominance of intonation, expiration and timbre; dialog and monolog; prose and verse.
6. Text and image: drama and stage, heard and seen, written text and staging text; verbal and extra-verbal action; written text in the hierarch of theatre devices; modern drama as a motivation structure.

Recommended or required reading

See the readings related to the appropriate topic range for the program exam in drama theatre history and theory and the program exam in drama directing and dramaturgy.

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit awarded based on the submitted course paper on an assigned topic.

Note

Drama theatre is equal to drama, understood of course not only as a written text but as theatre coming from a writtent text. That text not only ensures a verbal basis but also opens upon that basis potential for topicalizing life's material which deals with seeing the world as a space for human activity identical to decision. At the level of a relation of man with others and the world in which drama takes place in a genological sense with dama and the like, in which not only other arts but also „reality“ is applied.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)
• Theory and criticism (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Theory and criticism (M.A.) (optional subject)