About

DRM398H1S

Theatre Criticism and Festival Dramaturgy in the Digital Age in the Context of Globalization. – A cultural-comparative approach

 

 

Instructors  Prof. Antje Budde and Sebastian Samur (doctoral candidate)

 

Course location

Given the nature of this course there will be multiple locations for our meetings. Please follow the information provided by the instructors.

 

Official sessional dates: June 27-Aug.8 for S courses at the Faculty of Arts & Science, U of T

 

Course dates and places  (specific to this course because of travel component)

July 4-9 Toronto (Fringe Festival)

July 10-13 Paris (Comédie-française, L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Théâtre du Soleil)

July 13-20  Avignon ( Festival d'Avignon and July 18 Orange near Avignon, Ancient Roman Theatre trip)

July 20-12 Paris

July 24-July 28 Toronto

July 31 - Aug.8 Finalizing assignments

 

Festivals

Toronto Fringe          July 5-16, 2017

Festival d'Avignon

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Course description

The course will study the histories, artistic missions, funding models, creative productions, alternative post-industrial performance spaces, audience education and the impact of digital culture on the Toronto Fringe theatre festival in comparison with the international Festival d’Avignon (France).

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Students will make themselves familiar with current challenges of theatre conception, production, performance and reception on an international scale. Through digital communication and documentation projects (blogs on theatre criticism, photo and video documentation, critical performance analysis) students will learn to identify major challenges of theatre and performance festivals in the contemporary context and discuss them in a critical, open-access and cross-cultural manner. Students are encouraged to engage with such research bi-lingually in English and in French.

 

This course is a project of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL) and its Centre for Digital Humanities in Performance (idHIP) at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (CDTPS) at the University of Toronto. With this undergraduate course the DDL continues its saFAri series, which provides a critical platform for local and international experiential discoveries in theatre and performance related to post-modernism and digital culture. This course provides insides in key research aspects of the Centre (CDTPS) such as practice-based research methodologies, contemporary dramaturgy and theatre criticism, post-colonial comparative research in theatre and performance, feminist and queer theory and performance analysis.