SV4BP_MTDV Forum Theatre

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Němec, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Prerequisites
Forum Theatre Presumtions: - Studying of specialized literature - Screenplay of Forum Theatre - Record of process and realization of Forum Theatre with chosen aimgroup - Reflecion and evaluation of conceerned aimgroup - Active participation and performing of tasks in internet course Theatre Forum http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 16 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/16, only registered: 0/16
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Annotation: The subject is framed as one semestral project ended by realization of Forum Theatre with chosen aim group. Forum Theatre deals with problematic topics (e.g. bullying, smoking, absenteeism…) and its solvation. Students are introduced to different kinds of exercises, techniques and plays, that are used by this type of theatre. With the help of theese techniques they work in smaller groups on choosen topic. They create a short theatre story and screenplay with bed end. Then they offer this end and they play in front of the chosen aim group, which task is to help the main hero of the story.. Froum Theatre leads the viewer to the awareness that everyone has a possibility to influent and to at least slightly change the events around us and in the real life too. At the end of the course, the students will be able to: Define the terms of the theatre of suppressed. Describe the goals of the theatre of suppressed. Compare the local and international attitudes to the theatre “forum”. Constitute a performance of the theatre “forum”. Plan a workshop of the theatre “forum”. Apply a performance and a workshop of the theatre “forum”.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus: History of Forum Theatre(FT) The different forms of FT Usage of FT in conditions of the Czech Republic Viewer, players, joker Plays, exercises and techniques used by FT Choise of problem topic Creation of the story Construction of the story through the improvisation Work on the screenplay Realization of FT at basic school Reflection and evaluation
Literature
  • PAVLOVSKÁ, Marie and Lenka REMSOVÁ. Jak na divadlo fórum (Creation of the Theatre Forum). 1st ed. Brno: PdF MU, 2006, 120 pp. pedagogika. ISBN 80-86633-56-X. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Theater of the oppressed. Translated by Charles A. Leal McBride - Maria-Odilia Leal McBride - Emily Fryer. London: Pluto Press, 2000, xxi, 208. ISBN 0745316573. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Legislative theatre : using performance to make politics. Translated by Adrian Jackson. New York: Routledge, 1998, xiv, 254. ISBN 0415182417. info
  • FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogy of freedom : ethics, democracy, and civic courage. Edited by Donaldo P. Macedo - Stanley Aronowitz, Translated by Patrick Clarke. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998, xxxii, 144. ISBN 0847690474. info
  • FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. London: Penguin Books, 1996, 164 s. ISBN 014025403X. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. The rainbow of desire : the Boal method of theatre and therapy. Translated by Adrian Jackson. London: Routledge, 1995, xxvi, 188. ISBN 9780415103497. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Games for actors and non-actors. Translated by Adrian Jackson. New York: Routledge, 1992, xxxi, 247. ISBN 0415061555. info
Teaching methods
practicum, role-play method, lecture, discussion, dramatization, observation
Assessment methods
oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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