DVT025 Drama and Dramatics of Chaos

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2002
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Július Gajdoš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Dr. Július Gajdoš, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Marie Sochorová
Timetable
Tue 15:00–15:45 48, Tue 15:50–16:35 48
Prerequisites
not required
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The course concetrates on searching the nexsuses between the theory of chaos (designated also as theory of dynamic systems) and drama from the simple reasons. In the end of 20. century the chaos does not represent the death of order but becomes the space for rebuilting of thinking. This approach enables to see the world from diferent perspective, searching a analyzing the expresions of a would - be nonlinear reality in clasical but primarily in the plays of 20. century.
Syllabus
  • 1. Science as metaphor - theatre as image 2. Causality, contingency and chaos in drama 3. Quantum physics and its parallels in drama 4. Hybris, theatre of cruelty, alienation absurdity and chaos 5. Plasticity of present - Shakespeare, Artaud, 6. Retrieving of past -Beckett, Pinter, Shepard 7. T. Stoppard : Rozencrantz a Guilderstern are dead; Arcadia - in the end of humanism 8. Back to the future: T. Kushner Angels in America; Laurie Anderson - Nerve bible 9. Orderly disorder - Elizabeth Le Compte and Wooster Group
Assessment methods (in Czech)
2 hodiny přednáška, kolokvium, 2kr +1 za zkoušku Požadavky: účast, prezentace, esej (9000 znaků)
Language of instruction
Czech
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