DVE015 Theatre in Exile (Meerzon)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Yana Meerzon (lecturer), doc. MgA. David Drozd, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students wil gain knowledge about different types of exilic experience and study diffenret way whos to conceptualise it and express in theatre.
Syllabus
  • BRNO. May 12-16, 2013
  • On Exilic Odyssey: theatre, drama, performance.
  • 5 lecture –seminars x 3 hours (180min)
  • Outline:
  • Lecture 1: Intercultural Exile: Between relativity and positivism; toward the theory of exilic performative
  • Introductory lecture on the difference between intercultural theatre theories and exilic theatre practices
  • Readings:
  • Brodsky, Joseph. “The Condition We Call Exile”. On Grief and Reason: Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 1995. 22–35.
  • Pavis, Patrice. Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture. Trans. Kruger, Loren. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 1991. Chapter 1…
  • Gilbert, Helene & Lo, Jacqueline. “Toward a Topography of Cross- Cultural Theatre Praxis”. The Drama Review. V.46. N.3. (2002). 31–53.
  • Peters, John Durham. “Exile, nomadism, and diaspora: the stakes of mobility in the western canon” Home, Exile, Homeland. Film, Media, and the Politics of Place. Ed. Naficy, Hamid. Routledge: New York and London. 1999. 17-45.
  • Said, Edward. Chapter 17 “Reflections On Exile”. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000
  • Lecture 2: Nostalgia and Exile: the Historical Turn
  • READINGS:
  • Plays :
  • Nabokov, Vladimir “The Man from the USSR”
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail “The Flight”
  • Theory:
  • Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books. 2001. [on restorative nostalgia, introduction]
  • ——. “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”. Exile and Creativity. Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances. Ed. Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 1998. 241–63.
  • Lecture 3: “Displacement – our century’s common place”
  • Readings:
  • Plays:
  • Glowatcki, Janusz “Hunting Cockroaches” and/or “Antigone in New York”;
  • Brodsky “Marbles”;
  • Theory
  • Chaudhuri, Una. Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1995. [chapter on geopathology]
  • Foucault, Michel. “Of Other Spaces”. Trans. Miscowiec, Jay. Diacritics. V.16, N.1. (1986). 22–7. [on heterotopia]
  • Jestrovic, Silvija. Chapter 4 on Exilic City, in Performance, Space, Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile, Palgrave 2012
  • Lecture 4: The Homebody/Kanjiža: On Josef Nadj’s Exilic Theater of Autobiography
  • PERFORMANCES made by Josef Nadj to be watched in BRNO together with the students:
  • Woyzeck ou L’Ébauche du vertige was produced by Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans in 1994.
  • The 2006 Dernier paysage is a film version of Nadj’s 2006 solo Paysage âpres l’orage; originally presented on December 12, 2006 at the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse; a co- production of Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, Festival d’Avignon, Emilia Romagna teatro Fondazione (Modena)
  • Les Philosophes was created for Festival de Danse de Cannes (2001).
  • READINGS:
  • Melton, Judith M., The Face of Exile: Autobiographical Journeys. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1998. [Chapters 5 and 10]
  • Fischer- Lichte, Erika. “Sense and Sensation: Exploring the Interplay between Semiotic and Performative Dimensions of Theatre”. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. V.22. N.2. (2008). 69–83.
  • Heddon, Deirdre. Autobiography and Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. [introduction]
  • Kirby, Michael. “On Acting and Not-Acting”. Acting (Re)Considered. Ed. Zarilli, Phillip B. London: Routledge. 1995. 40–52.
  • Várszegi, Tibor “Knowable and Unknowable Worlds. The Dance-Theatre of Josef Nadj”. Performance Research. V.5. N.1. (2000). 99–105.
  • Lecture 5: Post-Memory and Exilic returns
  • PLAYS:
  • Wajdi Mouawad “Tideline” and/or “Scorched” (Lebanese-Quebec) Hannah Moscovitch. East of Berlin (English Canadian of Jewish origins) or
  • Marty Chan. Mom, Dad, I’m Living with a White Girl (Chinese – Canadian 2001)
  • Theory
  • Dahab, Elizabeth F. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2009. [chapter on Mouawad]
  • Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. Eds. Braziel, Jana Evans & Mannur, Anita. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2003. 233–47.
  • Hirsch, Marianne. “The Generation of Postmemory”. Poetics Today. V.29. N.1. (2008). 103–28.
  • Meerzon, Yana. “The Exilic Teens: On the Intracultural Encounters in Wajdi Mouawad’s Theatre”. Theatre Research in Canada. V.30. N.1. (2009). 99–128.
Teaching methods
Lecture, seminar discussion
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: every week.
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