CODE 90649 ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-ART/05 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW In the astonishing and misleading archive of the documents of the theater, the written texts are those that most influence us today in terms of number, ease of transmission (publication) and autonomous poetic value; but a path aimed at their real functional understanding - both in the historical and current sense - can only consider them in their physiology, of show projects - as explicitly the etymology of “dramaturgy”, ‘work (functioning) of actions’. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims to provide students with examples and critical tools to appreciate the function of dramaturgy in an anthropological perspective, that is the way in which the actions literally operate in the theater, interact and finally activate a show project, of which actors and spectators are equally co-constituting (and therefore from the beginning explicit or implicit variables of the eventual text); in relation both to the cursus of literary studies and to the Spettacolo curriculum. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES In particular, the course aims to develop some skills: recognizing the “physiology” of a dramatic text, between de-writing and pre-writing; appreciating the variety of historical and cultural forms; knowing some important examples; distinguishing a dramatic text from the performative text of the show; appreciating the genesis of writing for the scene, between summary and estimate of the creative experience. PREREQUISITES Elementary knowledge of theatre history. TEACHING METHODS Streaming lectures, with the aid of audiovisual material and practical exercises. SYLLABUS/CONTENT If it is true that the 'scene' (from skené, ‘curtain’), in advance of the place of result of the representation, is the threshold through which one makes visible what is invisible (the “open door” mentioned by Peter Brook), the dramaturgy is first of all a project of staging the ob-scenum (of what is literally out of scene), of unveiling, which operates according to three main directives: as an organizing principle and stimulus for the physical actions of the actors (the “Dramaturgy of actions” from Aristotle, to the Commedia dell'Arte, to Stanislavskij); as exploration and expansion of the mechanisms of collaboration between actor and spectator (the “metateatro” from Shakespeare, to Brecht, to Sinisterra); as a permanent lexical and syntactic creation (from the theatrical languages of Ruzante, Arlecchino, Testori to the so-called “dialects”). RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Mandatory texts Masolino D’Amico, Scena e parola in Shakespeare, Torino, Einaudi, 1974 Gerardo Guccini (a cura di), La bottega dei narratori. Storie, laboratori e metodi di Marco Baliani, Ascanio Celestini, Laura Curino, Marco Paolini, Gabriele Vacis, Roma, Dino Audino, 2005 Recommended texts Aristofane, Le rane Aleksandr Blok, La baracca dei saltimbanchi Calderon de la Barca, Il gran teatro del mondo Pierre Corneille, L’illusion comique Eduardo De Filippo, Sik sik artefice magico Denis Diderot, Il figlio naturale Michael Frayn, Rumori fuori scena Carlo Goldoni: Il teatro comico Thomas Kyd, Tragedia spagnola Pierre Marivaux, Gli attori in buona fede Molière, L’improvviso di Versailles Luigi Pirandello, Enrico IV Josè Sanchiz Sinisterra, Ay Carmela! Flaminio Scala, Il Teatro delle Favole Rappresentative William Shakesperare, La tempesta Ludwig Tieck, Il mondo alla rovescia Lessons start 2018, 25th September, Wednesday TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD ROBERTO CUPPONE Ricevimento: After each lesson or by appointment. Exam Board ROBERTO CUPPONE (President) ANGELA ZINNO ESTER FUOCO (Substitute) ROBERTO TROVATO (Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START 2020, 6th October, Tuesday Class schedule DRAMATURGY EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral. ASSESSMENT METHODS The evaluation will be in equal parts (3/3) a) on learning the informative contents of the prescribed texts, b) on the ability to critically process their contents, and c) on the personal in-depth study. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 21/01/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 11/02/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 13/05/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 27/05/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 10/06/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 24/06/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale 16/09/2021 11:30 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION It is recommended to contact the teacher for bibliographic indications or materials related to the lessons; to solve any problems in the availability of texts; to agree on motivated changes to the program.