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

«’u scuru» (The dark Area).

At the Theater with Nino Martoglio.

 

Is it possible to obtain a dramatic subject by following the artistic lines of a group of poems? And if so, what is the driving force and what are the ingredients that lead us towards the constitution of Situations, Themes, Characters, Dialogues and Captions of a theatrical text? Producing a dramatic writing starting from other texts means having a point of view on the meaning of what one wants to re-write and revive; understand the actions, their concatenation or rupture, the knot, the vicissitudes and the dissolution of a work; observe closely what animates its deep, spatial and temporal structures, learning to know and re-recognize the forces that confront each other in them (fabula, plot, characters, ideologemes, verisimilitude, etc.) under the fabric that agitates the statute of words. These are some of the dynamics of the dramatic rewriting work that the Italian Theater Literature Laboratory of the A.Y. 2023/2024 aims to address through the «sincere art» of poetry and theater in the Sicilian language of Nino Martoglio. Among veristic sketch scenarios, Pirandellian echoes and «strong manifestations of the existence» of popular creatures of everyday life, capable of overturning the point of view of “common” sense, the Participants of the Workshop will be guided in a path of creative re-writing (cognitive, pragmatic and semantic) of a masterpiece of Martoglio's Centona: the poetic composition ’A testimunianza (The testimony). The work in question will take place through a collective writing exercise: the Participants will be divided into working groups and accompanied in the creation of a theatrical text aimed at bringing out the richness of our heritage of traditions, primarily linguistic and cultural. The reference text from which the Students of the Laboratory will derive their dramatic subject is the following:

• Nino Martoglio, ’A testimunianza (La testimonianza), in Nino Martoglio, Centona. Tutte le poesie siciliane, a cura di S. Zappulla Muscarà, Roma, Newton&Compton, 1996, pp. 159-162 (the text will be made available, also in other editions, on the “Virtuale” online platform).

Readings/Bibliography

The reference text from which the Students of the Laboratory will derive their dramatic subject is the following:

• Nino Martoglio, ’A testimunianza (La testimonianza), in Nino Martoglio, Centona. Tutte le poesie siciliane, a cura di S. Zappulla Muscarà, Roma, Newton&Compton, 1996, pp. 159-162 (the text will be made available, also in other editions, on the “Virtuale” online platform).

 

The texts will also be the object of study and discussion in Class:

• Nino Martoglio, Tidda (Tina), in Nino Martoglio, Centona. Tutte le poesie siciliane, a cura di S. Zappulla Muscarà, Roma, Newton&Compton, 1996, pp. 134-137 (the text will be made available, also in other editions, on the “Virtuale” online platform).

• Nino Martoglio, Vanni Lupu (Vanni Lupo), in Nino Martoglio, Centona. Tutte le poesie siciliane, a cura di S. Zappulla Muscarà, Roma, Newton&Compton, 1996, pp. 134-137 (the text will be made available, also in other editions, on the “Virtuale” online platform).

These works will be read and commented on during the Workshop. Students will obtain the artistic inspiration, the subjects and the theatrical scenes for the drafting of their dramatic texts. Other bibliography will be exhibited and analyzed during the lessons, and always available on the “Virtuale” online platform.

The Workshop includes meetings with directors, writers and actors. The DVD recording of some selected texts will be shown.

Teaching methods

The aim of the Workshop is to build a dramatic text (one-act plays, monologues) with an intercultural and experimental slant. The course aims to encourage discussion between participants, promoting collaboration, sharing and collective enhancement of "artistic creativity", imagination, expressive capacity and writing style. After a few lessons on the general notions of theatre, each working group will be introduced to the construction of the text, deriving its own dramaturgical “object” from the texts analysed: Plot, Dialogues, Captions, Characters.

Assessment methods

The maximum number of Participants in the Workshop is 25 students. To participate in the Workshop, Students must register by sending an email to the following email address: luca.vaccaro2@unibo.it. The Workshop is divided into 15 meetings of 2 hours each, which will start on Wednesday 7 February 2024 from 11:00 to 13:00 in Room A (Via Centrotrecento n. 18), according to the following calendar:

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (Room A, via Centotrecento 18, 11:00-13:00);

Thursday 8 February 2024 (Room D, via Zamboni 34, 17:00-19:00);

Friday 9 February 2024 (Room D, via Centotrecento 18, 11:00-13:00.

The final judgment of suitability and the recognition of the relative credits (6 credits) is based on the active participation in all the meetings and on the evaluation of the written work created by the students. Attendance at the Laboratory is mandatory for the purpose of assessing eligibility. Only two absences will therefore be allowed.

Teaching tools

Teams, Handouts, Learning resources on "Virtuale".

Office hours

See the website of Luca Vaccaro