Theater, Film and Media

Directing and the Refounding of Theatre The course examines the most significant moments of the affirmation of directing in the theatrical culture of the first half of the 20th century, and examines the processes through which the theories and practices derived from it were structured in opposition to the 19th century production system dominated by the figures of the actor, the author and the impresario. i. The birth of directing Historicism and naturalism in theatre from Romanticism to the Meiningen. the naturalism of the Free Theatre of the Freie Bühne and the Moscow Art Theatre. ii. The directing theorists The theatrical utopia of Adophe Appia and Gordon Craig. iii. Painters in the theatre From Symbolist theatre to the avant-garde of the 1920s. Diaghilev's Russian ballets. iv. Theatre and revolution The masters of the Russian stage: Stanislawsky, Meyerchol'd, Vachtangov, Eisenstein. v. Directing in France and Germany Copeau and the Cartel.From Fuchs' Kunstler Theater to Max Reinhard. vi. The epic theatre The German, Russian and French agit prop. Piscator and Brech. Berthold Brecht's political theatre in the second half of the 20th century. vii - The actor and the director viii. The Hieroglyphic of a Breath Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty.

no prerequisites required

F. Mancini, L' evoluzione dello spazio scenico dal naturalismo al teatro Epico, Dedalo; M. Schino, La nascita della regia teatrale, Laterza; A. Ripellino, Il trucco e l'anima. Imaestri della regia nel teatro russo del Novecento, Einaudi

non-compulsory frequency

interview to ascertain the student's acquired knowledge and critical capabilities

oral lectures on the topics indicated in the programme