HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
cod. 1000496

Academic year 2016/17
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
72 hours
of face-to-face activities
12 credits
hub: PARMA
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 during the second half of XXth C.
Second part: contemporary theatre and dance in Europe; education to theatrical spectatorship

Full programme

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Bibliography

First part: Dispense sul teatro italiano dagli anni Cinquanta ad oggi (on sell at libreria Universitas, vicolo Grossardi 3/b)
Five comedies:
• 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 (on sell at libreria Universitas)
.Wim Wenders, Pina, 2012 (documovie)

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching and cooperative analysis of plays and playwrighting.

The course will also be offered in a blended way on the distance learning platform called Elly.

Assessment methods and criteria

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

Other information

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