Introduction to Theatre Studies

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012809
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is fundamentally theoretical-practical in nature, involving reading and critical commentary of texts, as well as regular and intense analysis of recorded and live shows. A wide range of media and document files will be used in this class, with special attention to photo archives and video files.  Students will take an in-class written exam. Students must submit at the end of the semester, a small case study devoted to the creative goals of a company, thus confronting the various issues convened by theater studies.

Learning Outcomes

- Identify the objectives of Theatre and Performance Studies;

-Understand the theatre as a tradition and social and artistic practice;

-Describe the principle structural elements of theatre: text, characters, space/scene, stage manager, actor, spectator.

-Understand the historical dynamic of the various theatre elements;

Develop research skills in the areas of texts and theatre practices from the past to the present;

-Ability to write a case study about a theatre company.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Theatre, play and performativity: theatre and performance studies;

- Theatre, history and society: the theatrical field;

- The dramatic text and post-dramatic textuality;

- The stage manager and scene dialogue.

- The dramatic genres;

- Theatre space and scenography;

- The character;

- The actor and the interpretation;

- The show's reception.

Head Lecturer(s)

Mário Djalme Montenegro Araújo de Castro Neves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Project: 20.0%
Other: 20.0%
Frequency: 40.0%

Bibliography

BALME, Christopher (2012) The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies, Cambridge University Press.

 

BARRIENTOS, José Luis García (2003) Cómo se comenta una obra de teatro, Madrid, Editorial Síntesis.

 

BEAT, Christian; TRIAU, Christophe (2006) Quést-ce que le thèâtre?, Paris, Gallimard. 

 

BORIE, Monique, Martine de Rougemont e Javques Scheres

(2004) Estética Teatral. Textos de Platão a Brecht. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,

 

CARLSON, Marvin (1997) Teorias do Teatro. Estudo histórico-crítico dos gregos à actualidade. São Paulo: Editora Unesp.

 

VASQUES, Eugenia (2003) O Que É o Teatro?, Lisboa: Quimera