Interpretation methods 1

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
207INM1	ZK	4	2T	Czech	winter

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Jan CÍSAŘ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student develops, based on theory, their own performance activity applying particular performance methods, procedures and mechanisms. The student demonstrates the abiltiy to implement theory-critique performance theatre stage events in the context of modern considerations and thought on theatre but not only theatre.

Mode of study

Contact.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Attending selected performances, knowledge of fundamental developmental tendencies in Czech and European theatre criticism.

Course contents

The lectures are devoted to theatre theory methodolgy trends of the 20th century. They offer the characteristics of individual methodology approaches to interpretation on the theatre stage and its reception in performance at the aesthetic and communication levels, under the unifying concpet of a theatre stage event. The first phase of instruction is research and use of original elementary methods of understanding any tme of these events: "A description of individual components, analysis of their connections at the syntagmic and paradigmatic levels and a final presentation of theatre stage events as the arrangement of individual described and analysed events into a whole construct in which is clarified its integrated significance. In futher phases of instruction the key concept of INTERPRETATION appears as the presentation of a particular product, that is, as the result of the interpretation process, which studies and researches various approaches and the potential perception of the viewed event as an sensible event. At the same time developing on a theory basis intepretation activity applying particular interpretation methods, procedures and mechanisms where the student is acquainted with some of the methodology trends of the 20th century such as phenomenology, the sociological approach, receptive aesthetics, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, etc.

Assessment methods and criteria

80% attendance, class participation, completion of assigned report. At the close the student completes a paper of 15-20 pages on a theory-critique interpretation of a selected theatre event which is to demonstrate the ability, based on strict and accurate methodology, to comprehend a theatre event that it becomes a real interpretation, as opposed a description, an analysis and presentation which uncovers a range of issues, posing important questions and covers a wider context which delves into the intepreted event.

The student is also able to implement a theory-critique interpretation of a theatre event in relation to contemporary considerations and thought not only of theatre.

Note

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

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019: