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

«Moved philology» and Theatre:

The Great War, between ideals, illusions and «unlucky battles of love»

«Who said that being a philologist is just a dry and aseptic job, made up of technical and mechanical operations extraneous to feelings and affections?» (A. Battistini). If this is true, it is possible to derive a dramatic subject by identifying in the universe of feelings experienced by the Lost Generation the reasons of comfort that moved it – amidst an explosion of irrationality, madness and mass illusion – to seek the ideal of «another life» over the fate of the "lie" of the First World War? And if so, what are the ingredients that lead us towards the composition of a theatrical text that seeks to take into account the tragic experience of war in the mentality and behavior of an entire generation? Creating a dramatic piece of writing starting from some examples of textuality inherent to the topic (e.g. stories, letters, diaries, etc.) means first of all studying, organizing and building a valid point of view on the meaning of what you want to re-write and partly revive. It is a question not only of understanding the contents and spirit of a work, but of closely observing what animates its profound structures, learning to know and re-recognize the forces that confront each other in it under the fabric that agitates the statute of words (characters, ideologemes, situations, themes, dialogues and captions etc.). To the myth and reality of the Great War - with particular attention to the autobiographical/existential "conversation" that Pirandello has with the "shadows" of the war conflict and to the threads of that «moved philology» that moves the tongue of two lovers, Stamura Segarioli and Francesco Fusco, in the love correspondence made into the theatrical text Il fiore che ti mando l’ho baciato – the dramatic rewriting work of the Italian Theatrical Literature Laboratory of the A.A. is dedicated. 2024/2025. Participants will be guided in the creation of their own theatrical text (e.g. one-act; monologue) through a collective writing exercise, to be carried out in working groups. The texts studied, analyzed and discussed in class, from which the students of the Laboratory will derive their dramatic work, are the following:

• Luigi Pirandello, Colloqui coi personaggi, in Id., Novelle per un anno, a cura di M. Costanzo, premessa di G. Macchia, Milano, Mondadori, 1990, vol. III, t. II, pp. 1138-1153 (the text will be made available on the “Virtuale” online platform).

• Luigi Pirandello, Berecche e la guerra, in Id., Novelle per un anno, a cura di M. Costanzo, premessa di G. Macchia, Milano, Mondadori, 1990, vol. III, t. I, pp. 571-679 (the text will be made available on the “Virtuale” online platform);

• Il fiore che ti mando l’ho baciato, scrittura scenica e drammaturgica di Elvira Buonocore e Anna Rita Vitolo, regia di Antonio Grimaldi, premessa di Antonia Lezza, Napoli, Edizioni Libreria Dante & Descartes (Quaderno dell’Associazione Centro Studi sul Teatro Napoletano Meridionale ed Europeo), 2024 (the text is available at the Humanistic Library “E. Raimondi”: Section of Classical and Italian Philology and Section of Humanistic Disciplines; the book will be made available to students during lessons).

Readings/Bibliography

The reference texts from which the students of the Laboratory will derive their dramatic subject are the following:

• Luigi Pirandello, Colloqui coi personaggi, in Id., Novelle per un anno, a cura di M. Costanzo, premessa di G. Macchia, Milano, Mondadori, 1990, vol. III, t. II, pp. 1138-1153 (the text will be made available on the “Virtuale” online platform).

• Luigi Pirandello, Berecche e la guerra, in Id., Novelle per un anno, a cura di M. Costanzo, premessa di G. Macchia, Milano, Mondadori, 1990, vol. III, t. I, pp. 571-679 (the text will be made available on the “Virtuale” online platform);

• Il fiore che ti mando l’ho baciato, scrittura scenica e drammaturgica di Elvira Buonocore e Anna Rita Vitolo, regia di Antonio Grimaldi, premessa di Antonia Lezza, Napoli, Edizioni Libreria Dante & Descartes (Quaderno dell’Associazione Centro Studi sul Teatro Napoletano Meridionale ed Europeo), 2024 (the text is available at the Humanistic Library “E. Raimondi”: Section of Classical and Italian Philology and Section of Humanistic Disciplines; the book will be made available to students during lessons).

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.

Teaching methods

The aim of the Laboratory is to construct an experimental dramatic text (one-act plays, monologues. The course aims to encourage discussion between participants, promoting collaboration, sharing and collective valorisation of "artistic creativity", expressive ability and writing style. After a few lessons dedicated to the analysis of the scheduled texts, each working group will be introduced to the construction of their own written work, obtaining their own dramaturgical "object" starting from the works examined: 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 Tuesday 11 February 2025 from 11:00 to 13:00 in Room/AULA EMILIO PASQUINI (Via Zamboni 32), according to the following calendar:

• Tuesday 12 February 2025 (Room: AULA EMILIO PASQUINI Piano Primo, Edificio in Bo - Via Zamboni 32, VIA Zamboni 32 - Bologna, ore 11:00-13:00);

• Wednesday 13 February 2025 (Room: AULA FORTI
  Piano Primo, Edificio in Bo - Via Zamboni 32, VIA Zamboni 32 - Bologna, ore 11:00 - 13:00));

• Thursday 14 February 2025 (Room: AULA FORTI
  Piano Primo, Edificio in Bo - Via Zamboni 32
  VIA Zamboni 32 - Bologna, ore 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