🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This course aims to familiarize students with the historical course and methods of reality theater. The theater of reality nowadays covers an ever-growing space in the field of performing arts and performance. Having its roots in political theater and historical avant-gardes, the theater of reality has experienced a series of trends, methods and applications such as documentary theater, verbatim theater, witness theater, court theater, non-fiction theater, autobiographical theater, special space theater, ethnodrama, and so on. while the application focuses on those methods that we most often encounter in recent artistic production.

At the end of the course, the student should:

• know the main forms of reality theater.
• recognize the different methodologies of each trend in the theater of reality.
• use the research methods of one of the forms of reality theater to prepare a complete project.
• be able to use the knowledge and understanding he/she has acquired in a way that shows a substantial artistic approach to the subject he/she will choose for the elaboration of his/her work, forming judgments that include reflection on the respective social, ethical, ideological and aesthetic issues.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction: truth, real, reality. Issues of theory, methodology and ethics of reality theater.
2. Prehistories: The Documentary Theater
3. Theater and testimony
4. Theatre of real people
5. Theatre of real spaces
6. Theatre of real events
7. Methodology of research in the theater of reality
8. The interview process
9. The dramaturgy of the theater of reality
10. Staging the real
11. Pre-presentation of student papers and discussion
12. Pre-presentation of student papers and discussion
13. Presentation of papers and critical evaluation

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

The laboratory practice of the course follows the above sections of theory and applies the various processes and trends of reality theater using the corresponding tools (interviews, transcripts, creation of a performance text, dramaturgy and directorial conception of a reality theater work, issues of interpretation, etc.).

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 20% - Capture and edit interviews

• 80% - Artwork

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.
• Communication with students via email and through an electronic chat space in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2615/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Thompson, Paul, Voices from the Past, Plethron, Athens 2002.
• Ververopoulou, Zoe, The contemporary theatre of the real, Papazisis, Athens 2023

Extra Bibliography

• Dreysse, Miriam & Florian Mazacher (eds.), Rimini Protokoll: Experts of the Everyday. The theatre of Rimini Protokoll, Verlag 2008.
• Forsyth, Alison & Chris Megson (eds.), Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Martin, Carol, Theatre of the Real, Palgrave, London 2013.
• Martin, Carol (eds.), Dramaturgy of the real on the world stage, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York 2010.