Learning objectives
This course intends to provide its students with the skills and knowledge needed to understand the history of Italian contemporary theatre, within the framework of the first-level degree descriptors (i.e., the Dublin Descriptors).
At the end of the course a student is expected to:
- Have a critical knowledge of the key-figures, plays, tendencies of Italian contemporary theatre.
- To be able to recognize the main components and the dramaturgical structures of a contemporary play
- To be able to address the topics through the specific terminology of theatre studies
- To be able to structure a research in theatre studies and to access to bibliography and sitography.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
The course introduces to the history of italian theatre from the half of XXth C. to our days, taking in consideration its development in parallel with the history of Italian society and culture.
Full programme
The extended program (and notes and guidelines for studies) will be available on elly for the date of beginning of the course
Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAFy and VIDEOGRAPHY
• Unities on-line, ELLY DUSIC, 1-15 (elly blended). They are our reference book
Fabrizio Cruciani, "Lo spazio del teatro", Laterza: last chapter concerning the contemporary theatre
Un testo drammatico:
Samuel Beckett, "Aspettando Godot"
• One of these two books:
a. About Festival Internazionale del Teatro Universitario a Parma: Margherita Becchetti, "Il teatro del Conflitto. La compagnia del collettivo nella stagione dei movimenti", Odradeck 2003 (available on Elly)
b. On documentary theatre and Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung: Roberta Gandolfi, "Un’Istruttoria lunga più di 30 anni. Olocausto, memoria, performance al Teatro Due di Parma", Milano, Mimesis, 2015
VIDEOGRAFY D’ ESAME: we will look at important plays of italian contemporary theatre: cfr. il file VIDEO TEATRO on ELLY, with titles, link, instructions:
• Eduardo De Filippo, Napoli Milionaria
• Documentari sul Piccolo Teatro
• Brevi video con grandi interpreti della scena italiana: Titina De Filippo, Franca Valeri, Franca Rame
• Dario Fo, Mistero Buffo
• Pina Bausch, Palermo Palermo
• Marco Paolini, Racconto del Vajont
Teaching methods
This year we return to classes in presence.
The classes are mostly frontal but the students are welocme to speak
Assessment methods and criteria
The exam is oral
Other information
Please register on Elly for this course. Many materials and information are delivered trough Elly.
For the students who are not following in presence: I rather suggest to study through Elly blended. I don't believe in didactic utility to follow on distance a class delivered for students in presence.
These students must make a contact with the teacher, via e-mail or in presence, in order to discuss directly which mehtod of study is required for the exam
