2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

L-ART/05 (PERFORMING ARTS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN PHILOLOGY. SCIENCE OF LITERATURE THEATRE CINEMA

Scritture per la scena e per lo schermo

1°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

PAGANI MARIA PIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

A good knowledge of the theatre history, in Italy and abroad.

The course aims to provide solid historical, methodological and critical instruments to evaluate the history of the art of directing, considering: the relationship between directors and theatre critics, the development of acting techniques, performance in tradition and avant-garde, correlations between Italian and European theatre, case studies. At the end of the course, students will be able to properly illustrate the diachronic development of the discipline, demonstrating: a conscious approach to theatrology, individual capability for analyses, appropriate re-elaboration and use of the acquired knowledge, comprehension of the aesthetic and cultural dynamics.

The program is structured in two parts: the institutional one, about the main lines of the history of the art of directing, and a specialised course entitled "Art of Directing and Theatrical Criticism in Italy".
Considering a broad overview of the main Italian theatrical magazines in the first half of the XIXth century and the newspapers that hosted reviews and dramatic chronicles of the major national critics, will be analyzed the various forms and techniques for the description of the art of directing in that period. A deep critic and historiographical reflection will be useful, in order to observe the raising of the art of directing in Italy and the work of some important foreign directors – also considering their several tours in the main Italian towns.

The lessons will take place at the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia.

Lectures, analyses of archival and audiovisual documents.

The exam involves the study of the following texts:
-U. Artioli (a cura di), Il teatro di regia. Genesi ed evoluzione 1870-1950, Roma, Carocci, 2004.
-A. Gjata, Il grande eclettico: Renato Simoni nel teatro italiano del primo Novecento, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2015.
-F. Mazzocchi – S. Mei – A. Petrini (a cura di), Il laboratorio di Lucio Ridenti. Cultura teatrale e mondo dell'arte in Italia attraverso “Il Dramma” (1925-1973), Torino, Accademia University Press, 2017.
-D. Orecchia, Il critico e l'attore: Silvio D'Amico e la scena italiana di inizio Novecento, Torino, Accademia University Press, 2012.
-F. Perrelli, Tre carteggi con Lucio Ridenti: Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Guglielmo Giannini, Tatiana Pavlova, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2018.

Oral exam, aimed to verify the acquired knowledge with: learning abilities, communicative abilities, depht of re-elaboration and individual critical analyses.

Non-attending students should contact the teacher, and integrate the study with one of the following texts:
-F. Perrelli, La seconda creazione: fondamenti della regia teatrale, Torino, UTET Libreria, 2005.
-P. Quazzolo, Conoscere il teatro. Strumenti per l’analisi dello spettacolo, Venezia, Marsilio, 2014.
-M. Schino, La nascita della regia teatrale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014.