The young, angry and different in European theatre

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Remote learning

The young, angry and different in European theatre

We will read, watch (including participation in performance readings) and discuss:

- Constanze Dennig, Exstasy Rave

- Peter Handke, Dopóki dzień was nie rozłączy

- Werner Schwab, Zagłada ludu albo moja wątroba jest bez sensu

- Krzysztof Warlikowski, Apollonia

- Kathrin Röggla, Sprawmy sobie dzieci!

- Ewald Palmetshofer, hamlet umarł. nawet siły ciążenia

- Miroslava Svolikova, usadzeni

- Volker Schmidt, Trzeba być wdzięczną

- Peter Turrini, Gościnność

- George Tabori, Przedwczesne odejście

- YOUR CHOICE: texts proposed by seminar participants

Truly alive, original and modern theatre has always been theatre involved and committed. It is nowadays modern playwrights and theatre directors who try to recon with national myths, provoke discussion on still unprocessed problem of Nazism, criticise narrow-mindedness and conformism, defy the established conventions, oppose against aesthetic norms and break down taboos, often outside the bounds of good taste.

Subject areas to be discussed:

· Young, angry and different. On new generation of playwrights and theatre directors;

· New topics and trends: climate change, migration crisis, armed conflicts, marginalisation, criticism of neoliberalism, etc.

· Recycling of problems, motifs and characters – quasi-palimpsest;

· Feminist discourse in modern theatre;

· Mythology: re-interpretation. How we read and stage myths today;

· Classics re-invented. On new interpretations of European canon;

· Is there such thing as ‘national theatre’?

- ability to analyse and interpret selected literary works, theatrical productions and films

- as part of the course, as far as we are able, online and „in real life“, we will participate in theatre and literary events, seminars on theatre, meetings with authors(s), play readings at the Ateneum Theatre (free of charge), etc.

- ONLINE SEMINAR