Università Roma Tre

The course will be made up of three sections:

- In the first part the course will present and analyse the principles of scenic composition through the new perspectives opened by the cognitive sciences and the theories of embodied cognition.
- Then, the works and the theories of the great Russians theatre directors of the XX Century will be analysed.
- In the last part the methodologies of scenic composition of the Odin Teatret and the theoretical writings of Eugenio Barba will be studied.

- Gabriele Sofia, “Le acrobazie dello spettatore. Dal teatro alle neuroscienze e ritorno”, Roma, Bulzoni, 2013.

- Angelo Maria Ripellino, “Il trucco e l'anima. I maestri della regia nel teatro russo del Novecento”, Torino, Einaudi Editore, 2002.

- Selection of writings by Eugenio Barba. This document can be requested sending an email to gabriele.sofia@uniroma3.it


FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

- Vsevolod Mejerchol'd, “Sul teatro. Scritti 1907-1912”, Roma, Dino Audino Editore, 2015.