This course focuses on a selection of late 19th and 20th century European theatre texts in order to examine a variety of performance modes, theatre practices and dramatic theories.
It aims to introduce students to significant developments in theatrical theory and practice from the onset of realism to the 1960s. The emphasis is on developing appropriate methods of analyzing specific texts, which manifest significant differences in theatrical method and examine how drama serves as a means of mediating the social/cultural/historical discourse of a given time.
The students are expected to demonstrate knowledge of the relation between reading and the viewing of modernist theatre texts of the period to broader historical developments of performance modes
(Realism/Naturalism, Expressionism/Surrealism, Epic/Political Theatre and Existentialism/ Theatre of the Absurd) They should be able to participate in debates (written and oral) about the relationship between theatrical theory and praxis and critically read dramatic texts as indicators of complex socio-cultural, political and theatrical events. In doing so, assess the possible impact of European theatre tradition on the contemporary global stage.
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