OVERVIEW

The course gives students the basic instruments to understand the institutional aspects, the economic context, the cultural policies and the management practices of the performing arts (notably, spoken theatre) in Italy.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Aim of the course is to provide students with the tools to identify and understand, from a historical point of view, the main institutional, organizational and managerial aspects that characterize Italian prose theater.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

For 6 CFU students:

• Capacity to understand and analyse theatrical events according to an economic-organisational perspective;
• Knowledge of the main productive and distributive set-ups in Italy (with regard also to their historical shaping);
• Understanding of the issues of economic sustainability of theatre enterprises.

In addition, for 9 CFU students:

• Ability to write and to present a research paper;
• Ability to take part in a scientific discussion.

PREREQUISITES

Although it is not compulsary, students are advised to have taken History of theatre before attending to this course.

TEACHING METHODS

Class lectures during the first two modules. Active participationis required in the third module : students will be engaged with field-research, in order to write a paper (other languages in addition to Italian are possible) and to present it to the class.

Subscription to Aulaweb is mandatory for all students.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme for students taking the course for 6 CFU (= 40 hours class lessons)

Theoretical and historical basics

The first two modules will sketch the main outlines of the history of the Italian spoken "theatre system", with particular regard to organisational, political and economic aspects.

Programme for students taking the course for 9 CFU (= 60 hours class lessons)

Contemporary theatre production

The third module is dedicated to the contemporary theatre production in Italy. Creative processes and organisation processes will be outlined and analyzed, in regard to both big and little scale theatre and companies. This part of the lessons will engage students with active partecipation.

In collaboration with STORIA, FORME E MODELLI DELLA SCENEGGIATURA CINEMATOGRAFICA (prof. Rigola) and LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA (prof. Ferraro), a group of students will be selected and take part to the Workshop  «les Pénélopes», at the University of Seville, within the Ulysseus network.

Students not proficient in Italian may request a substitutive program.

NB: check Aulaweb for updates and specifications

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for Erasmus students taking 6 CFU (= attending 40 hours class lessons):

1. L. Cavaglieri, Il sistema teatrale. Breve storia dell'organizzazione, dell'economia e delle politiche del teatro in Italia, Roma, Dino Audino, 2021
2. Slides of the lessons published on Aulaweb

Bibliography for Erasmus students taking 9 CFU (= attending 60 hours class lessons):

Add a reading amongst the following books:

SPOKEN THEATRE

• E. Scarpellini, Organizzazione teatrale e politica del teatro nell’Italia fascista, LED, Milano 2004
• G. Pedullà, Il teatro italiano nel tempo del fascismo, Titivillus, Corazzano 2009
• C. Fontana (a cura di), Paolo Grassi. Una biografia tra teatro, cultura e società, Skira, Milano 2011

DANCE

• A. Pontremoli e G. Ventura, La danza: organizzare per creare. Scenari, specificità tecniche, pratiche, quadro normativo, pubblico, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019

OPERA

• J. Rosselli, L’impresario d’opera. Arte e affari nel teatro musicale italiano dell’Ottocento, Torino, EDT, 1985 (nuova edizione 2018)
• S. Baia Curioni, Mercanti dell’opera. Storie di Casa Ricordi, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2011
• G. Stefani, Sebastiano Ricci impresario d'opera a Venezia nel primo Settecento, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2015
• M. Paoletti, Savona e la sua scena. Il Teatro Chiabrera tra Risorgimento e Unità (1853-1883), Quaderni Franzoniani, XX (2007) [2017]

Bibliography for students not proficient in Italian language and for not attending students (= NON FREQUENTANTI) may be arranged individually.

NB: check Aulaweb for updates and specifications

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LIVIA CAVAGLIERI (President)

ROBERTO CUPPONE

GIULIA TADDEO (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

18 September 2023

Class schedule

THEATRICAL ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Attending students will be evaluated through two written tests on the first and second module; for the third module they will present a paper to the class with class discussion and peer evaluation.

The exam for not attending students is oral.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students will be evaluated in their capacity of giving a clear account of the subjects; problematizing studied issues; debating with the colleagues and the istructor.

Exam schedule