Russian Theatre

The course aims to provide knowledge and create skills related to the analysis of the dramatic text and theatre in the Russian historical and cultural context, taken in both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The course is reserved for students of the three-year Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literatures (starting from the second year), the Master's Degree Course in European and non-European Languages and Literatures, and the Master's Degree in Music and Performance Science.

Knowledge: the student will know the main lines of development of the history of Russian theatre. He will have in-depth knowledge of the main acting systems and theories of Russian masters of theatrical directing. At the end of module C the student will be acquainted with some of the main re-readings of Russian theatrical heritage given by Russian and Italian directors in recent years.

Skills: the student will acquire the ability to analyze the dramatic text and the staging, to discuss and argue the materials covered by the course and to apply the method to other examples. He will be able to place over time authors, currents and major works of the studied period; he will be able to highlight the similarities and differences between the texts read and grasp the main interpretative instances of the analyzed stagings, placing them in relation with their historical, political, and social context.