· Introductions of participants and
directors, and of individual seminar projects.
· Overview of the Summer Seminar by the
director and co-director.
· Information about the theater
resources in Buenos Aires (theaters, libraries, bookstores, newspapers, special
publications on theater).
· Guest speaker: From Teatro Calibán (Buenos Aires), Norman Briski, awarded
Argentine actor, director and playwright, will lecture on his artistic
experience from the late 60s to the present.
· Attendance to theater productions
during the weekend.
WEEK 2:
· Participants will report on their
initial experience as spectators in relation to the concepts introduced and
discussed during the first week.
· The two plays assigned for reading in
the previous week will both be discussed, in association with the attended
theater productions (to be selected according to offerings in Buenos Aires).
· Psychoanalytical approach to
theatricality.
· Introduction to Latin America women’s
theater.
· Guest speaker: Cristina Escofet (Argentinean playwright, director and
feminist scholar).
· Attendance to theater productions
during the weekend.
WEEK 3:
· A short play will be selected, read
and discussed; participants in small groups will design at least two staging
projects of that play, by taking into account all the concepts already
implemented.
· Globalization and Neoliberalism:
Economic, social, and cultural consequences.
· Guest speaker: Dr. Ricardo J. Gómez, Ph.D. (California State University, Los
Angeles, and University of Buenos Aires).
· Communitarian Theater
(Argentina 1983-present).
· Guest Speakers: A panel with Communitarian Theater Directors: Adhemar Bianchi,
Ricardo Talento and Agustina Ruiz Barrea.
· Attendance to theater productions
during the weekend.
WEEK 4:
· Debate on concepts that are linking
all the individual seminar projects in order to promote collaboration and
exchange among participants, and consolidate the final project for the future
book.
· Preliminary thoughts on implications
of our seminar work for classroom teaching, including ways of incorporating
online and other electronic resources.
· Meetings will be dedicated to
individual presentations; each presentation will be followed by a short
discussion.
· Attendance to theater productions
during the weekend.
