Teaching Workshop: from the Pages to the Scene: Practice and Aesthetics of Performance
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The aim of the workshop is to improve students' knowledge of contemporary theatre and of the processes of playwriting in recent years, exploring stylistic phenomena such as adaptation and autofiction. Through creative exercises, readings and viewings, they will experience writing for the theatre and other artistic practices for the staging.
Expected learning outcomes
At the conclusion of the workshop the student will develop analytical and productive skills in the field of playwriting. They will thus achieve a knowledge of some of the most interesting theatrical phenomena on the contemporary scene.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The workshop aims to explore a series of playwriting practices that have helped transform theatre over the last decades and have influenced the more experimental contemporary European scene. Through exercises, creative writing sessions, readings and vewings, we will discuss the main phenomena that have led modern drama through a crisis of representation (Müller, Koltès, Kane, Churchill, Spregelburd, Jelinek...), towards towards a varied and fragmented contemporaneity. Within the horizon of an aesthetics of performance focused on the relations between theatre and reality, the workshop will focus on the relations between poetry and theatre and on a series of rhythmic-musical techniques that recall the theme of the text as material and body. In addition to attending theatre performances in Milan and meeting playwrights, the workshop will include the production of a dramaturgical work and a reading event open to the public.
Prerequisites for admission
The workshop is included in the following degree programmes:
Studies in Cultural Heritage (Classe L-1)-Enrolled from 2017/2018 Until 2020/2021
Studies in Cultural Heritage (Classe L-1)-Enrolled from 2021/2022 Academic Year
Music, Theatre and Film (Classe LM-45)-Enrolled from 2019/2020 Until 2020/2021 Academic Year
Music, Theatre and Film (Classe LM-45)-Enrolled from 2021/2022 Academic Year
No particular prerequisite is required.
Studies in Cultural Heritage (Classe L-1)-Enrolled from 2017/2018 Until 2020/2021
Studies in Cultural Heritage (Classe L-1)-Enrolled from 2021/2022 Academic Year
Music, Theatre and Film (Classe LM-45)-Enrolled from 2019/2020 Until 2020/2021 Academic Year
Music, Theatre and Film (Classe LM-45)-Enrolled from 2021/2022 Academic Year
No particular prerequisite is required.
Teaching methods
Frontal and participatory ectures; writing exercises (individual and/or in group); practical activities to be performed in the classroom; viewing of theatre performances.
Teaching Resources
Textual materials will be provided by the professor during the lectures.
Assessment methods and Criteria
At the end of the workshop the student will acquire knowledge of the contemporary theatre scene and analysis skills on stylistic elements and structures in the field of playwriting. He/she will also have acquired familiarity with theatrical writing on a practical level.
Participation in lectures and workshop activities and a dramaturgical work produced during the workshop will be assessed.
Participation in lectures and workshop activities and a dramaturgical work produced during the workshop will be assessed.
Professor(s)