This course consists of 4 lessons in a
Standard Language Course plus 2 private tutorials on Italian Theatre, each day.
Theater is a fundamental
feature of Italian culture and many foreigners, as lovers of theater, are interested in
understanding the texts to improve their Italian. As in all thematic courses, this one
aims not only at providing knowledge of the language of theater, but also at improving the
student’s general knowledge of the Italian language on the basis of the didactic
principle that the things that interest us are much more easily assimilated.
The program can be carried out in several
ways:
A) a short look at the main Italian
playwrights, at theatrical trends and movements, with readings, viewing of videos and
stylistic analyses of important pieces and theatrical language
B) the presentation and analysis of a
specific movement or author
C) the presentation and analysis of a
particular work
Program A:
The Quattrocento: the age of multiform
theaters
Court fests
Commedia dell’arte
Mimes
Theaters of the Settecento
The theater of Opera
The great playwrights
D’Annunzio
Pirandello
The futurists and fascist theater
The post-war
Strehler, Ronconi, Fo and Carmelo Bene
New theater and the avant-garde
The area of the stage
The language of theater
Programs B and C
If a student is particularly interested in a
theatrical movement, in a playwright or in a particular work, the course can focus
entirely on that topic. In such cases, we recommend that the student inform us before
arriving in order to give the instructor sufficient time to prepare a specific program
with selected texts
Example of Program B: Pirandello
Biography, his years of learning in Sicily,
his first novels, the collection of his short stories, his work with newspapers and
magazines, his essays, his first play: Se non così (1915), his plays in Sicilian dialect,
his first theatrical success: Tutto per bene (1920), his fame abroad: Sei personaggi in
cerca d’autore (1921), etc.
Example of Program C: Pirandello, Sei
personaggi in cerca d’ autore
Performed for the first time on May 10, 1921,
at the Teatro Valle of Rome by the company of Dario Niccodemi, it is a complete fiasco!
The following years it is performed in London and New York with great success. In 1923 is
it performed in Paris in the version by Benjamin Crémieux, etc. |
