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Root number
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505784 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Theater Studies |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Seminar integral (BA): Australian Drama: Performing Cultural Exchange |
| Description |
In the last 25 years there has been a remarkable rise in the number and success of Australian Indigenous plays. An increasingly diverse community of Australian theatre workers are eloquently recalibrating national history. Julian Meyrick observes that ideas of space, memory and love permiate Australian drama, while contemporary Australian drama reveals «a resurgent awareness of nationhood». Australia is home to the oldest continuous living culture in the world, and also to one of the youngest. Colonial settlement/invasion of the Australian continent began in 1788. The rapid transformation from penal colony through frontier wars and waves of migration has profoundly shaped the cultural consiousness of the modern nation.
This seminar will work with contemporary Australian postcolonial and postmigrant plays, and spatial, postcolonial and dramaturgical theoretical concepts to consider contexts of production. A visit to the Museum of Australian Aboriginal Art in Môtiers, JU, will open up the experience of cultural contact and raise questions of Indigenous art representation and presentation. This will provide a comparative perspective for the aesthetics, socio-politics, and institutions of Australian theatre. Script analysis of Australian postcolonial and postmigrant plays will take a wider view, focusing on local and global contexts of production. Through dramaturgical analysis, students will develop production ideas and concepts for the local presentation of such material. What key ideas in the plays promote cultural exchange? Which local production contexts would support such theatre? How might this drama foster intercultural dialogue here in Switzerland? Students will learn the practical considerations of bringing a script into production. This will include various methods of drama analysis, staging requirements for performance, and identifying potential audiences.
The selected plays and reading will be made available on Ilias. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Susan Veronica McClements Wyss, Institute of Theater Studies ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Thursday 12:15-16:00 Fortnightly
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Thursday 25/9/2025 12:15-14:00
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