DRAMATURGY

To provide theoretical and methodological tools for the study of dramaturgy, understood both in its dimension of 'literary dramatic text' and as 'scenic text'.

The course is divided into two modules: the first (A), theoretical-institutional, proposes general issues of dramaturgy. The second one (B) is dedicated to the dramaturgical score of Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi, singers of the contemporary scene able to alternate research and experimentation that is directed towards actor's theatre and collective dramaturgy.

There will be an alternation of frontal and laboratory dimensions, and a constant active participation of the students in the lessons will be encouraged.

• Institutions of dramaturgy theory.
• The tradition of the dramatic text between page and stage. Problems and methods of theatre philology.
• Forms of dramaturgy: historical overview from antiquity to the twentieth century through the analysis of some successful examples.
• Author / Actor / Director between dramaturgy and writings of the scene.
• Case studies: Sicilian dramaturgy by Enzo Vetrano e Stefano Randisi.

A. Dramaturgy: definitions and method (4 CFU)

Text:

• L. Mango, La scrittura scenica. Un codice e le sue pratiche nel teatro del Novecento, Roma, Bulzoni, 2003, p. 416.

B. «Curtain rises in the South» (2 CFU)

Text:

• E. Vetrano, S. Randisi, La trilogia della Sicilia (Il principe di Palagonia, Mata Hari a Palermo, L'isola dei Beati), Imola (Bo), Cue Press, 2014, p. 120.

Critical analysis:

• A. Lezza, La letteratura teatrale italiana. Storia e ipotesi di lavoro, in Antologia teatrale a cura di A. Lezza, A. Acanfora, C. Lucia, Napoli, Liguori, 2015, pp. 3-26 (the handout will be provided in class);
• E. Ferrauto, La drammaturgia siciliana contemporanea e il grottesco familiare: follia, solitudine e morte, in Antologia teatrale. Atto secondo, a cura di A. Lezza, F. Caiazzo, E. Ferrauto, Napoli, Liguori, 2021, pp. 257-287 (the handout will be provided in class).

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.