Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the history and theory of stage direction and skills for critically analysing performance productions. <br />
Another objective regards library research skills in the field of performing arts subjects. <br />
Prerequisites
Students must have attended at least one course on the history of the theatre or the performing arts.
Course unit content
<p>Course title: The history and theory of theatre direction. <br />
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The twentieth century is considered the century of the director par excellence. The course introduces students to the meanings and theories which have grown up around the process of direction; it offers an excursus per exempla through different aesthetic developments in the phenomenon of direction, by focusing on a number of significant practices, analysing a number of productions, and discussing their poetics and modes of operation. Through exercises and moments of seminar work, the course teaches students how to read and analyse the operation of direction. <br />
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Full programme
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Bibliography
<p>Reading list: <br />
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Mara Fazio, <em>Regie teatrali. Dalle origini a Brecht</em>, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2006 <br />
Franco Mancini, <em>L'evoluzione dello spazio scenico. Dal naturalismo al teatro epico</em>, Dedalo, Bari, 2002 <br />
Lecture notes, distributed from 24 November at the theatre section, Via Cavour 28, 9 am –1 pm. <br />
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Teaching methods
<p>The course alternates between: <br />
classroom lectures; <br />
seminar-based lessons discussing sources and documents; <br />
reports on individual research . </p>
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Assessment is oral and will take into account, in addition to the critical study of the texts in the reading list, research carried out during the course and library and document research skills in the area of performing arts subjects. <br />
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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