Theory and Practice of (written) Dramatic Theatre 2

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Subject guarantor

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ

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 Summer semester includes this range of concepts/issues:

6: Text and image: drama and stage, heard and seen, written text and staging text; verbal and extra-verbal action; written text in the hierarchy of theatre devices; modern drama as a motivational structure.

1. Event and composition: event and extra-event devices effect; space and time; tempo and rhythm; linearity and „multi-linugalism“; intriguing comedy and lyric drama; problem drama and dramatic poem.
2. Drama and genre-style treatment: tragedy, comedy and drama in a narrow sense; classicism, realism and romanticism, respectively expressionism; style and chronotops, chronotops path and „moment“.
3. Drama and acting person: guise and figure; (individual) character and type, type and prototype, respectively archetype; hero and everyman; solid types or fields and modern drama and the actor, respectively acting.
4. Drama and media: theatre and film drama and theatre in film and film in theatre; TV drama and television serial, sitcom etc. and the influence of theatre on television and television on drama; drama and radio.

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

Grading based on the presented 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)