The course  is a combination of theoretical investigation and laboratorial work. It aims at exploring the relationship between literary texts and contemporary theatre through the examination of the wide-spread practice of the adaptation of literature for the stage and screen over the last decades. It introduces the students to a wide range of classical literary texts which have been adapted for the stage by contemporary Greek and international directors. It also poses crucial questions about the aesthetics and politics of the transformation of literature to theatre today. Finally, through the close analysis of selected examples of such transformations, the course aims at developing the students’ critical thought and adaptation , creative writing skills.

By the end of this course students are expected: 

to be aware of the historical and theoretical implications of the increasing current theatre trend of drawing on literary rather than dramatic texts

to make connections between this trend and developments in the drama genre  as well as wider contemporary artistic and cultural contexts

to able to analyse and present examples of theatre literarisation  and dramatization of literature closely and critically the work of major theatre theorists and practitioners

to compare theatre and film adaptations of literary texts focusing of the medium specificity

to have experimented with dramatizing a literary texts as a creative process, also pinpointing the theoretical issues raised in the process and discusses in class

to have acquired skills in research and presentationas well as in creative writing