Course Content (Syllabus)
The overview of the act of performance during the second half of the 20th century, looking at theatre as the "great stage game", as a series of exchanges "between a text and a performance, between actors and a director, between a stage and an audience, between a theatre and a society" (Bernard Dort).
What, after all, is the history of theater? Methodological concerns.
The relationship between the history of theater and history as a whole. The connection between postwar theater and theater's previous eras. The relationship between the European and Modern Greek scenes. Modern-postmodern.
Theatrical troupes and workshops. Directorial trends.
Dramaturgical analysis of the great works of Sartre, Williams, Arthur Miller, Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Albee, Bernhard, Heiner Muller, Koltès, Kane, Kambanellis, Anagnostaki, Kechaidis, Ritsos etc
The course focuses, also, on the crisis in drama by studying the works of contemporary drama as well as postdramatical performances: the crisis of the dramatic character, the myth, the plot.
Post-dramatic theatre - Performance art – happenings – dance theater.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Σακελλαρίδου Ε., Θέατρο-Αισθητική-Πολιτική, εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, Αθήνα 2012
Τεοντόρ Αντόρνο, Αισθητική Θεωρία, Μτ. Λ.Αναγνώστου, Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2000.
Σάββας Πατσαλίδης, Θέατρο, Κοινωνία, Έθνος, τ. Α & Β, University Studio Press, 2009.
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Ιστορία του θεατρικού δράματος 2. Από τον ρομαντισμό έως σήμερα, Πλέθρον, Αθήνα 2012.
Matei Calinescu, Πέντε όψεις της νεωτερικότητας, ΑΣΚΤ-ΕΛΚΕ, 2011.
Eric Hobsbawm, Η Εποχή των Άκρων,Θεμέλιο, 2010.