27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.E)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the laboratory the student will be able to identify the main textual problems in relation to the forms and functions of theatrical writing: characters, dialogue and caption. It will also be able to include the relationships between the literary text and the dramatic text, paying attention to the extra-textual components (scenography, lighting, music).

Course contents

«Sienteme ’n chino, e spantate»! /

«Aspetta di sentire tutto, e poi meravigliati»!

The combinatorial Art of the Fairy Tale: from G. Basile to R. De Simone

 

Fairy Tales - writes Italo Calvino - «are the catalog of the destinies that can be given to a man and a woman, especially for the part of life that is precisely the making of a destiny». They travel in time and space, cross the Centuries, and as an «unexpected voice "that comes you don't know where" they can be confined to the circuit of a story that tells the story of a character or several characters, the social experience, the objects, the tools of a specific historical epoch and the ideological structure of a specific culture. A way of seeing the world, therefore, at the crossroads between order and tradition, which usually escapes from a purely theoretical glance: the inventive and compositional freedom enjoyed by the fairy tale has in fact a marked dramatic content, which allows a glimpse of the gaps and the interpolations of the texts a rich stylistic possibility, which can translate into a splendid poetic metanarrative and metateatral «iuoco de li iuoche». From this point of view, the same cunti of Basile's Pentamerone constitute a clear example of linguistic mixture halfway between literary acrobatics in the Baroque and vulgar style.

The Italian Theater Literature Laboratory of the A.Y. 2022/2023 is dedicated to Giambattista Basile's Cunto de li cunti, and to his Desimonian reinterpretation, including that offered in the masterpiece of the Gatta Cenerentola. The main objective of the Laboratory is to study the "transition" from the literary system of the "cunto" to the theatrical text, promoting the knowledge of the dramatic resources contained therein, the main textual "nodes" in relation to the forms and functions of the space. , of the time, of the dialogue, of the characters and of the caption. This will allow the participants of the workshop to start a collective writing exercise - conducted in working groups - aimed at creating a theatrical text and an original artistic elaborate. The execution of the writing work will be preceded by the commentary and discussion in class of the following points by Basile, read in the editions edited by Michele Rak and Roberto De Simone (vd. ll cunto de li cunti di Giambattista Basile nella riscrittura di Roberto De Simone; note di C. De Iudicibus; illustrazioni di G. Vallifuoco, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, 2 voll.):

• G. Basile, La Gatta Cenerentola, in Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, a cura di M. Rak, Milano, Garzanti, 1999², pp. 124-139.

• G. Basile, La vecchia scorticata, in Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, a cura di M. Rak, Milano, Garzanti, 1999² pp. 199-221.

• R. De Simone, La Gatta Cenerentola. Favola in musica in tre atti, Torino, Einaudi, 1991 (1977) [or in one of its reprints].
  

 

Readings/Bibliography

The execution of the writing work will be preceded by the commentary and discussion in class of the following points by Basile, read in the editions edited by Michele Rak and Roberto De Simone (vd. ll cunto de li cunti di Giambattista Basile nella riscrittura di Roberto De Simone; note di C. De Iudicibus; illustrazioni di G. Vallifuoco, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, 2 voll.):

• R. De Simone, La Gatta Cenerentola. Favola in musica in tre atti, Torino, Einaudi, 1991 (1977) [or in one of its reprints].

• G. Basile, La vecchia scorticata, in Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, a cura di M. Rak, Milano, Garzanti, 1999² pp. 199-221.

• G. Basile, La Gatta Cenerentola, in Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, a cura di M. Rak, Milano, Garzanti, 1999², pp. 124-139.

These works will be read and commented on during the meetings. From them, the students will draw the artistic inspiration, the subjects and the theatrical scenes for the drafting of their dramatic texts. The volumes are available at the “Ezio Raimondi” Library of the Department of Classical and Italian Philology (FICLIT, via Zamboni 32), and will in any case be made available on Virtual Educational Resources [https: //virtuale.unibo. it / course / view.php? id = 31497]. Other bibliography will be exposed and analyzed during the lessons. The workshop includes meetings with directors, writers and actors. Some selected texts will be shown the recording on DVD.

Teaching methods

The aim of the Laboratory is to elaborate unique acts, monologues or experimental and intercultural dramatic texts, in which the imagination, expressive capacity, or the aesthetics of the students' writing will act. The course aims to encourage discussion between the participants, promoting collaboration, sharing and collective enhancement of “artistic creativity”. After several introductory lessons on the general notions of theaterlogy, each working group will be introduced to the construction of the text, creating its own dramaturgical “object” from the analyzed texts: plot, dialogues, captions, characters.

Assessment methods

The maximum number of participants in the Laboratory is 25 students. In order to register for the course, students must communicate their presence by sending an email to the following address: luca.vaccaro2@unibo.it [mailto:luca.vaccaro2@unibo.it] .

The Laboratory is divided into 15 meetings of 2 hours each (30 hours), which will take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Lessons will start on 8 February 2023, according to the following schedule: Wednesday 8 February (Aula A, via Centotrecento, 11: 00-13:00); Thursday 9 February (Aula D, via Zamboni 34, 17:00-19:00 pm); Friday 10 February 2023 (Aula D, via Centotrecento, 11: 00-13:00).

The final evaluation and the recognition of the relative credits (6 cfu) is based on the active participation in all the lessons and on the evaluation of the written work carried out by the students. Attendance at the Laboratory is compulsory to obtain the credits. Therefore, only two absences will be allowed.

Teaching tools

Teams, Handouts, Risorse didattiche su Virtuale [https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=31497]

Office hours

See the website of Luca Vaccaro