Teaching Methodologies
1. Exhibition and group discussion classes;
2. Analysis and discussion of theoretical texts previously distributed to students;
3 . Reading and analysis of theatre plays;
4 . Seeing shows and/ or discussion with your playwright;
5. Writing exercises for theater;
6. Follow upon the writing of the short piece with feedback during the process.
Learning Results
The student must be able to:
1- Define the field of action of dramaturgy;
2 – Identify the dramatic crisis, from the readings of Peter Szondi, Hans Thies Lheman, Jean Pierre Sarrazac;
3- Framming historically from theoretical and practical contributions the origin of dramaturgy until present;
4- Identify practices and dramatist strategies of different theatrical projects;
5- Explore different forms of writing in dialogue with themes of contemporanity in specific contexts;
6- Develop the ability to create plays for different contexts;
7- Carry out an individual project of playwriting in short format.
Program
1 – Definition of Dramaturgy;
2- Evolution of Dramatic Writing;
3 – Genealogies, limits and object of writing for theatre;
4 – Ficcional Theatre vs Teatre of the Real;
5 – Tension between: content, structure and shape in several practices of writing;
6 – Exercise the writing for theater from different strategies and contexts;
7 – Accompanied writing of a short piece from a theme/context.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Grading Methods
- - Exam - 100.0%
- - Project - 50.0%
- - Attendance and Participation - 50.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Calderone, M.; Llyod-Williams, M. (2004). Actions – The Actors Theasaurus. Nick Hern Books.
Correia, R. (2020). Eu uso termotebe e o meu pai também e outras peças. Artistas unidos / Editora snob
Danan, J. (2010). O que é a Dramaturgia? Editora Licorne.
Danan, J. Sarrazac. J.P (2012). L`Atelier D` écriture théâtrale. Actes Sud- Papiers
Delgado, M, Lease, L. Rebellato, D. (Ed). (2020). Contemporary European Playwrights. Routledge
Jeffreys, S. (2019). Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to write. Nick Hern Books.
Goldfinger, J. (2022). Playwriting with Purpose. Routledge
Grochala, S. (2017). The Contemporary Political Play-Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure. Bloomsburry Methuen Drama.
Lehmann, H.T. (2007). O Teatro Pós-¬dramático. Cosac Naify
Martin, C. (2012) Theatre of the Real. Palgrave Macmillan.