Programme

Performing Arts - Actors Training

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

Bachelor | Semestral | 4

Year | Type of course unit | Language

2 |Mandatory |Português

Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)

100 | 45

Code

ULP1977-15449

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. Reading as covenant, play, combat.
1.1. Modes of being and being of the reader in the face of modernity and postmodernity.
1.2. Ways to read. Universes of criticism
1.3. The reader as interpreter in the dramatic arts constellation.
2. Reading and analysis of dramatic texts of Political Theater of the 20th and 21st centuries. Is the whole Theater political?
2.1. Mother Courage and her children (1939), by Bertolt Brecht, as epic theater (era, contexts, text, representations). Free readings of Shakespeare or history as catastrophe.
2.2. Hamlet Machine (1977), by Heiner Müller (time, contexts, text, representations).
2.3. A Mouth full of Birds (1986), by Caryl Churchill (epoch, contexts, text, representations). Brecht's re-reading, epic theater and issues of sexuality.
2.4 Shopping and fucking (1996), by Marc Ravenhill. Critique of British society and Inherent-face theater (era, contexts, text, representations).

Objectives

. To problematize the world in which we live, understanding reading as a crossroads of intentions, contexts, texts, ways of reading and readers;
. To alert students to the amplitude of reading as an informal and formal, implicit and explicit activity, problematizing the interstices of denotation and connotation;
. To Emphasize the importance and polysemy of interpretation, embracing a broad spectrum that encourages the interpenetration between cognition and action, emphasizing performative potentialities of reading dramatic texts;
. To analyze theoretical and methodological implications of reading and criticism, from text to discourse, comparing approaches (rhetorical, philological, semiological and semiotic, hermeneutic and literary, crossing poetics, rhetoric and reception, emphasizing Discourse Analysis and its various schools and traditions);
. To carry out the reading and analysis of the selected texts, belonging to the Political Theater of the XX century.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

. Deepening the taste for reading, in a strict and broad sense, demonstrating the importance of this in the organization of thought and action and for the development of attention and concentration.
. Understanding of the relevance, specificity and comprehensiveness of the dramatic texts of the political theater and the difficulty of conceptual delimitation of this type of theater, safeguarding the relevance of the present of the students to the understanding of the proposed texts and their contexts, not forgetting their reception and representation.
. Reinforcement of the internalization of the student's idea as an interpreter, functioning as a catalyst for creativity and creation.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

Collective reading of the proposed texts, analyzing the respective structure, issues raised and problems involved. Use of complementary sources (other dramatic texts, films, recordings of spectacles). Intervention of the teacher to frame or summarize the activities described, encouraging dialogue and debate with students.
The evaluation will be based on the reading and analysis exercises carried out in the classroom context (participation (40%), as well as small works developed by the teacher's indication (10%). the subjects taught in the discipline (50%).

References

Brecht, Bertolt. Teatro 5. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2005.
Churchill, Caryll. Sétimo céu / Uma boca cheia de pássaros / Distante. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2006.
Müller, Heiner. Anatomia Tito Fall of Rome / Máquina Hamlet. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2016.
Ravenhill, Mark. Shopping and Fucking. London: Methuen Drama, 1996.