ID:
508084
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
DISCIPLINE DELLO SPETTACOLO
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide the student with critical and interpretative tools for the knowledge and study of theater and performing arts in Modern and Contemporary Age, not only from a theoretical and methodological point of view, but also through historical analysis of the main expressive forms and artistic languages that have been gradually established. At the end of the course the student must therefore demonstrate:
1) to know and to be able to read the complex structure of performing arts languages in Modern and Contemporary Age (the dramaturgical text, the spectacular text, the scenic writing, the direction, the acting ...)
2) to know how to contextualize the languages of the performing arts in Modern and Contemporary age, with particular reference to the twentieth century turning point
3) to be able to analyze the various forms of drama and performance and their aesthetic, pedagogical, anthropological and social repercussions
1) to know and to be able to read the complex structure of performing arts languages in Modern and Contemporary Age (the dramaturgical text, the spectacular text, the scenic writing, the direction, the acting ...)
2) to know how to contextualize the languages of the performing arts in Modern and Contemporary age, with particular reference to the twentieth century turning point
3) to be able to analyze the various forms of drama and performance and their aesthetic, pedagogical, anthropological and social repercussions
Course Prerequisites
The Course of Theatre and Performance Studies B follows the Course of Theatre and Performance Studies A (especially in historical and methodological terms). Therefore it is advisable to have attended module A and subsequently access to module B. However, for those wishing to choose only module B, it is advisable to have a basic knowledge of the history and languages of the performing arts (dramaturgical text, staging, acting...) and to have basic skills related at least to the history of the Modern Age, to the history of literature and art.
Teaching Methods
The course is based on the following teaching methods:
1) Traditional Lectures
2) Slides, especially concerning visual and iconographic sources
3) View and comment of videos of theatrical plays and performances
4) Presence of external guests, both scholars and artists that works in the field od theatre and performing arts (actors, directors, stage managers, art directors)
5) Planning of theatrical plays selected from the theatres of Pavia and Milan to be viewed by the students.
6) Sharing of all teaching materials on the web-based platform Kiro
1) Traditional Lectures
2) Slides, especially concerning visual and iconographic sources
3) View and comment of videos of theatrical plays and performances
4) Presence of external guests, both scholars and artists that works in the field od theatre and performing arts (actors, directors, stage managers, art directors)
5) Planning of theatrical plays selected from the theatres of Pavia and Milan to be viewed by the students.
6) Sharing of all teaching materials on the web-based platform Kiro
Assessment Methods
The oral exam aims to verify the knowledge and the skills acquired by the students about these didactic fields:
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
3) Theatrical plays and performances viewed by the students
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
3) Theatrical plays and performances viewed by the students
Texts
The course requires the knowledge by the student of the following reference texts, closely related to the contents of classroom lessons: 1. ALONGE, Roberto, PERRELLI, Franco, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo, Utet, Torino 2015 from p. 110 to p. 352. 2. ALONGE, Roberto, Un nuovo genere: il dramma borghese, in Storia del teatro moderno e contemporaneo, vol. II, Il grande teatro borghese. Settecento – Ottocento, Einaudi, Torino 2000, pp. 855-882. 3. SCHINO, Mirella, L'età dei maestri, Viella, Roma 2017.
Contents
The contents of the course are so structured: 1. The notion of theatre and performance (the difference between theatre, drama, show and performance; the relationships between theatre, play and ritual; the role of the space, the body and the action) 2. The sources for the history of theatre and performance (theatre between presence and absence; direct and indirect sources; the long period of performance) 3. The Baroque feast (theatre in seventeenth century in Italy and Europe; the evolution of theatrical genres) 4. The theatre in eighteenth century (the crisis of the mainstream theatrical genres; the turning point of Diderot and Rousseau; Goldoni and the theatre reform) 5. The Bourgeois drama (the nineteenth century theatre; I bsen; the crisis of ‘absolute drama’) 6. La direction (the coming of direction; Antoine; the Meiningen; Stanislavskij; Mejerchold; Brecht) 7. The theatre in the twentieth century (the ‘physical actions’ revolution; the ‘scenic writing’; Artaud; Copeau; Grotowski; Living Theatre; theatre in second part of twentieth century) 8. Italian Theatre
Course Language
Italian
More information
No attending students have to study one of these books:
1. BARBA Eugenio, La canoa di carta, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012
2. GROTOWSKI Jerzy, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma 1993.
1. BARBA Eugenio, La canoa di carta, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012
2. GROTOWSKI Jerzy, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma 1993.
Degrees
Degrees
HUMANITIES
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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