HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
cod. 1005487

Academic year 2015/16
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Discipline dello spettacolo (L-ART/05)
Field
"storia, archeologia e storia dell'arte"
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

Critical knowledge of the different styles, poetics, tendences of contemporary theatre and dance

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

First part: history of italian theatre from the half of XXth C. to our days
Second part: contempòorary dance in Italy and Europe, from second half of XXth C. to the present

Full programme

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Bibliography

MODULO A:

Dispense sul teatro italiano dagli anni Cinquanta ad oggi (in distribuzione presso la libreria Universitas (in vicolo Grossardi 3/b, traversa di via D’Azeglio)
Cinque testi drammatici:
• Eduardo De Filippo, Napoli milionaria
• Dario Fo, Morte accidentale di un anarchico
• Dacia Maraini, Dialogo di una prostituta con un suo cliente e altre commedie (Bur, Rizzoli, 2012)
• Samuel Beckett, Aspettando Godot
• Bertolt Brecht, L’anima buona del Sezuan

MODULO B
Dispense B sulla danza contemporanea (da acquistarsi presso la libreria Grossardi)
• Roberto Giambrone, Pina Bausch: le coreografie del viaggio, Macerata, Ephemeria, 2008
Wim Wenders, Pina, un film-documentario del 2012 acquistabile in DVD

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching and partecipated analysis of plays and playwrighting

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination and a written work (a diary of observation of a play)

Other information

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