Theatre Dramaturgy

Meeting Times and Venues

Weeks 1-8:

Thursday, 2-5PM, W1-SR3 (Virginia Wolf)

Friday, 10-1PM, W1-SR3

You might also be invited to join some of the Directors' classes Tuesdays 3-6PM.

Weeks 9-11:

Thursday, 2-5PM

Weeks 9-11:

Fridays, 10-1, Rooms: see schedule below
Fridays, 2-6PM

Weeks 13 - 16:

Fridays, 10-6PM

"Theatre Talks" - Sessions for all Masters students: Tuesday 1300-1400 & Thursday 1300-1400, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 (dates & topics will be indicated on the schedule below).

Spring Festival: Weeks 22-24

The Masters-Pathways in Dramaturgy will work in close conjunction both with the specialisms in Creative Producing and in Directing, and you will be largely co-taught and work together for most part of the year. Dramaturgs will start the year working with Creative Producing-students (Week 1-8), before joining Directors for the rest of the year. Dramaturgs should get involved and work with directors towards the Autumn Term Studio Showcase, even though this will not be assessed, as it is a great opportunity to do some work and explore Production Dramaturgy in practice.

Coursework Deadlines - Summary:

Wednesday Week 1 (30/09/09): Venue & Production Reports DR853

Wednesday Week 7 (11/11/09): Case Studies in Contracts etc. DR853

Friday Week 12 (18/12/09): Group Project DR853

Tuesday Week 13 (tbc): Group Project Presentation

Friday Week 20 (12/03/10): Dramaturgical Analysis DR854

Thursday Week 24 (08/04/10) : Dramaturgy Essay DR837

(within two weeks of your festival performance) Dramaturgical Project/Spring Performance Season DR854

Monday Week 25 (10/05/10): Dramaturgical Practice Study DR837

1 September 2010: MA Thesis (MA Dramaturgy Students only)

Schedules

(these schedules will be periodically updated so it is crucial that you keep an eye on them regularly)

DR853 Creative Producing and Dramaturgy

Weeks 1-8

(Creative Producers and Dramaturgs)

0	Attend Vanya at the Gate Theatre, London before 26/09/09
1	Wed, 30/09/09 - Submit Assignment One: Venue and Production Reports	Wed, 30/09/09, 5PM - Year 4 meeting - ELT1
		Thu 01/10/09, 2PM W1-SR3	Creative Teams and Contracts (DOB)
		Fri 02/10/09, 10AM W1-SR3	Contracts 1 (DOB)
2		Wed, 07/10/09, 2-5PM, Lumley	Year 4 Tea Party
		Thu 08/10/09, 2PM	Contracts 2 (DOB)
		Fri 09/10/09, 10AM 2-4PM (Lumley - dramaturgs only)	Employment 1 (DOB) Workshop with Sam Holcroft
3		Thu 15/10/09, 2PM	Theatre Dramaturgy in the UK (DR)
3		Fri 16/10/09, 10AM	Programming and Publicity - Dee Ashworth (DR)
4		Thu 22/10/09, 2PM	Productions and Venues (DR)
4		Fri 23/10/09, 10AM	Dramaturgy and Publicity (DR)
5		Tue 27/10/09, 5-7PM, GRLT1	Polish Dramaturgy - Piotr Gruszczynski
		Thu 29/10/09, 2PM	Venue Programming (Robert Miles, Brewhouse Theatre)
		Fri 30/10/09, 10AM	Casting (Robert Miles, Brewhouse Theatre)
6		Thu 05/11/09, 2PM	Job Interviews (DOB)
6		Fri 06/11/09, 10AM	Employment 2 (DOB)
7		Thu 12/11/09, 2PM	Workshop with Ian Rickson
7		Fri 13/11/09, 10AM	Production Dramaturgy (DR) 5 venues task presentation
8		Thu 19/11/09, 2PM	Legal Structures (DOB)
8		Fri 20/11/09, 10AM	Budget and Finance (DOB)

DR854 Production Dramaturgy

(Dramaturgs only)

0	Read Howard Barker's The Possibilities and other suggested materials	Fri, 25/09/09, 1.15PM	Preliminary Meeting
1		Fri 02/10/09, 2-6 PM Lumley	Work with Directors on Barker's The Possibilities (DR)
2		Tues 06/10, 7.45PM, Gulbenkian,	Reckless Sleepers:The Pilots + PSD
2	Read Chekhov's Uncle Vanya	Fri 09/10/09, 2-4 PM Lumley	Follow up workshop on Vanya with writer/adapter Sam Holcroft
3		Wed 14/10/09, 2-6PM Aphra and Lumley and	Independent work with the Directors on Barker's The Possibilities
3		Fri 16/10/09, 2-6PM Lumley and/or Aphra	Independent work with the Directors on Barker's The Possibilities
4		Research Day Trip 19/10/09 (details to follow)	Theatre Museum and National Theatre archives (Prof Shaughnessy)
		Tues 20/10/09. 7.45 Gulbenkian	Little Bulb: Crocosmia + PSD (Ursula)
		Wed 21/10/09, 2-5PM Lumley and/or Aphra	21 on 21 Howard Barker: The Possibilities
5		Tue 27/10/09, 2-5PM Keynes SR7 5-7, GRLT1 Friday 30/10/09 2-6PM, Lumley	Polish Dramaturgy - Piotr Gruszczynski Polish Dramaturgy Patrice Pavis: Mise-en-scene and directing 1
6		N?A
7		Tuesday 10/11/09 3-6PM Keynes Sr 7	Patrice Pavis: Mise-en-scene and directing 2
7		Tues 10/11 or Wed 11/11, 7.45, Gulbenkian	Box Clever: Time for the Good Looking Boy +PSD
8		n/a
9		Thu 26/11/09 2PM	Production dramaturgy Surgeries
9		Fri 27/11/09	Rehearsals for the Showcase
10		Thu 03/12/09 2PM	Production dramaturgy Surgeries
10		Fri 04/12/09	Workshop with Tessa Walker, Gate Theatre
11		Thu 10/12/09	Showcase Performances
11		Fri 11/12/09	Showcase Performances
12		Tues 15/12/09 KS7	Debrief session
		Christmas Vacation
13	PRIOR READING Nikcevic, S.: 'British Brutalism, the "New European Drama", and the Role of the Director', NTQ, 21:3 (2005), pp. 255-272 Žižek, S.: 'Multiculturalism' in The Universal Exception, Continuum, London/ New York, 2006 - the essay is also available online Sarah Kane, Blasted, Methuen, 1995	Tues, 19/01/10, 10-1PM Woolf S3	Transnational Dramaturgies: Sarah Kane's Idea of the Balkans (DR)
13	PRIOR READING *Allain, Paul The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki,* Methuen 2009 - 'Suzuki Training: An Update' The Drama Review 157 Spring 1998 Carruthers, Ian The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki, Cambridge University Press, 2004.**	Tues, 19/01/10, 2-6PM Eliot Drama Studio	Contemporary Directing Case Study 1: Tadashi Suzuki (PA)
14	PRIOR READING Turner & Behrndt and Luckhurst Conquergood, D.: 'Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research', TDR, 46, 2 (2002), pp. 145-156 Radosavljevic, D.: The Need to Keep Moving: Remarks on the Place of a Dramaturg in 21st Century England - Performance Research: 'On Dramaturgy', 14 (3), pp. 43-49	Tues, 26/01/10, 10-1PM Woolf S3	The Place of a Dramaturg in Contemporary UK Theatre (DR)
14	PRIOR READING *'Pulling Faces at the Audience - The Lonely Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor', Andrzej Zurowski, New Theatre Quarterly, January 1999.* *Kantor, Tadeusz Wielopole Wielopole: an Exercise in Theatre,* M Boyars, 1990.**	Tues, 26/01/10, 2-6PM Eliot Drama Studio Friday, 29/01/10, 2-6PM, Jarman Studio 1 with the directors	Contemporary Directing Case Study 2: Tadeusz Kantor (PA) Workshop with Alan Lyddiard
15	PRIOR READING Paul Allain, Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition, Harwood 1997. The chapter on Training can also be found in Phillip Zarrilli's Acting (Re)Considered, 2^nd edition. Wlodzimierz Staniewski with Alison Hodge, Hidden Territories, Routledge, 2004 Paul Allain. 1995: 'Coming Home: The New Ecology of the Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland', The Drama Review 39: 93-121 Lisa Wolford and Richard Schechner, (eds) The Grotowski Sourcebook, London & New York, Routledge 1997. Choose a few pieces from the Theatre of Productions and Paratheatre sections. Numerous texts and films on/by Grotowski and the Grotowski Archive	Tues, 02/02/10, 2-6PM Eliot Drama Studio	Contemporary Directing Case Study 3: Jerzy Grotowski and Wlodzimierz Staniewski
15		Thu, 04/02/10, 2-6PM Eliot Studio	Assessed Workshop 1: Brecht's Messingkauf Dialogues
16	PRIOR READING Lisa Appignanesi, Cabaret, Methuen, 1984 Peter Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, Harvard University Press, 1996 Oliver Double and Michael Wilson, '"I am a Poor, Skinny Man": Persona and physicality in the work of Karl Valentin', Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 28 No. 3, 2008, pp.213-221 Oliver Double and Michael Wilson, 'Brecht and Cabaret' The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Second Edition, Cambridge	Tues, 09/02/10 10-1PM Woolf S3 Thu, 11/02/10, 2-6PM Eliot Studio	Karl Valentin and Cabaret Performance (Olly Double) Assessed Workshop 2: Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre
17	PRIOR READING Erika Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2008. Ch.1, "The transformative power of performance, 11-23 Ch.3, "Shared bodies, shared spaces: the bodily co-presence of actors and spectators", 38-74 Ch.5, "The emergence of meaning", 138-160. March 2007, 270-280 (cf. also London: Verso, 2009 Jacques Rancière, "The Emancipated Spectator", ArtForum, March 2007, 270-280 (cf. also London: Verso, 2009) Peter M Boenisch, 'Towards a theatre of encounter and experience: Reflexive Dramaturgies and Classic Texts' - In: Contemporary Theatre Review, Special issue 'New Dramaturgies' 1:2010 (forthcoming), ed. Synne Behrndt and Cathy Turner ----, 'Thomas Ostermeier: mission neo(n)realism and a theatre of actors and authors', in Maria Delgado and Dan Rebellato, eds, Contemporary European Theatre Directors, Routledge 2010 (forthcoming), 339-359 ---, 'Exposing The Classics: Michael Thalheimer's Regie beyond the Text", Contemporary Theatre Review, Special issue 'German Theatre Beyond the Text ', 18:1, February 2008, pp.30-43	Tues, 16/02/10, 10AM-1PM, Woolf S3	How to do things with texts: Relational Dramaturgies and recent productions of classical texts on the Continent (Peter Boenisch)
18	[1927c] [1961] (1996) ' "bühne" aus einem vortrag von oskar schlemmer mit demonstrationen auf der bühne vor dem kreis der freunde des bauhauses am 16 märz 1927' in bauhaus 3 von Walter Gropius und L. Maholy-Nagy, 1-4: trans. A. Wensinger, 'Theater (Bühne)' in W. Gropius and A. Wensinger (eds) The Theater of the Bauhaus [1961] (1996) Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 81-101 Trimingham, M.(2004a) 'Oskar Schlemmer's Research Practice at Dessau Bauhaus' 29.2, 128-42 (2004 c) "Sehr geehrter Herr Schlemmer..." A letter to Oskar Schlemmer occasioned by a performance of the Bauhaustanze at the Dessau Bauhaus 1928 in Performance Research 9.1, 81-98	Tuesday 10.00-13.00 Woolf S3 Friday, 13.00-16.00, Lumley	The Theatre of the Bauhaus (Melissa Trimingham) Workshop with Goran Stefanovski
19	Frank Camilleri, 'Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh', TDR 52:4 (T200), winter 2008, 82-97. Frank Camilleri, '"To Push the Actor-Training to Its Extreme": Training Process in Ingemar Lindh's Practice of Collective Improvisation', Contemporary Theatre Review, 18:4 (2008), 425-441. Frank Camilleri, 'Hospitality and the Ethics of Improvisation in the Work of Ingemar Lindh', New Theatre Quarterly, 24.3 (2008), 246-259.	Tuesday 12.00-14.00 Lumley 14.00-16.00 Keynes Seminar Room 24	Ingemar Lindh's Practice of Collective Improvisation (Frank Camilleri)
20	Patrice Pavis, ed.(1996), The Intercultural Performance Reader,'The Theatre is Oriental', Routledge. David Williams (1999) Collaborative theatre: The Théâtre du Soleil Sourcebook, Chapter 5 'Myth and the Contemporary', Routledge. Aeschylus, Oresteia Euripedes, Iphigenia at Aulis	Tuesday 10.00-13.00 Woolf S3	Intercultural Approaches to Greek Tragedy: Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Atrides (Angie Varakis)
21-22	Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, eds, Contemporary Theatre in Europe: A Critical Companion, Routledge, 2006 Hanna Scolnicov and Peter Holland, eds, The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1989 Gunilla Anderman, Europe on Stage: Translation and Theatre, Oberon, 2005.	Tuesday 10.00-13.00 Woolf S3	European Theatre in Britain/ British Theatre in Europe (Robert Shaughnessy)

Methodology Sessions Autumn 2009
Week	Tuesdays Darwin lecture theatre 1 1pm - 2pm unless stated otherwise	Thursdays Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 1pm - 2pm
1		Dr Melissa Trimmingham Research Strategies
2	Mole Wetherall Reckless Sleepers
3	Derek Whittaker - Library Research Skills VENUE: Templeman Library Room TR302, Level 3 East	Dr Helen Brooks Career Pathways in Theatre
4	Little Bulb Theatre Co.
5	Prof Patrice Pavis New Methods of Performance analysis
6	Yellow Earth Theatre Co Susannah Kraft	Prof Robert Shaughnessy Academic Writing
7	Box Clever Theatre Co	Dermot O'Brien Costing and Budgeting
8	Steve Rice Equity representative
9	Dr Nicola Shaughnessy Writing on Performance
10		Dermot O'Brien Project Management
11	Rosie Turner Artistic Director, Canterbury Festival
12	No Talks
Shared Sessions - Whole Year Group
2	Weds 7^thof October Tea Party, Sian Stevenson - Venue: Lumley. 2-5pm
6	Weds 4^th of November Making Space, Gary McCann - Venue: Lumley, 2-5pm
8	Weds 18^th of November Workshop, tbc - Venue: Lumley, 2-5pm

Weeks 1-8: Thursday, 2-5PM, W1-SR3 (Virginia Wolf) Friday, 10-1PM, W1-SR3

Weeks 1-8:

Thursday, 2-5PM, W1-SR3 (Virginia Wolf)

Friday, 10-1PM, W1-SR3

You might also be invited to join some of the Directors' classes Tuesdays 3-6PM.

Fridays, 10-1, Rooms: see schedule below Fridays, 2-6PM

Weeks 13 - 16:

Fridays, 10-6PM

Weeks 1-8:

Thursday, 2-5PM, W1-SR3 (Virginia Wolf)

Friday, 10-1PM, W1-SR3

Fridays, 10-1, Rooms: see schedule below
Fridays, 2-6PM