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Laboratory of dramaturgy
of Sasha Denisova
Master of the laboratory is Sasha Denisova.

«The theater playwright is obliged to read the state of time.
It is not necessary to express eternity, but it is necessary
to express what bad critics call the word "momentary"».

Subjects and courses

Terms and conditions

2 years (4 semesters)
200 000 rubles per year
Start of studying on October 1, 2018
Deadline for receipt of documents until September 20

Master of the laboratory
1.

Sasha Denisova is a playwright, director, and prose writer. Chief playwright of the Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold.

2011 - 2014 - Deputy Artistic Director of the Moscow Academic Theater named after Mayakovsky. Performance of Sasha Denisova «Light My Fire» (Theater.doc) is the winner of the Golden Mask 2012
in the nomination «Experiment».

Author of stage plays:

  • «Light My Fire» (Teatr.doc)
  • «Dusty Day» (Center for Drama and Directing Kazantsev and Roshchin)
  • «Morphology» (Center for Drama and Directing)
  • «Mayakovsky goes for sugar» (Mayakovsky Theater)
  • «Nine to ten» (Mayakovsky Theater)
  • «An Enemy of the People. Version of the play by G. Ibsen» (Mayakovsky Theater)
  • «Decalogue on Sretenka» (Mayakovsky Theater)
  • «Alice and the State» (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold, nominee for the Golden Mask-2014)
  • «Sforza» (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold)
  • «Winter Coast» (Laboratory of the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater)
  • «Job» (Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov)
  • «Shavasana» (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold)

Documentary stage plays:

  • «So and so yes» (Theater on Spasskaya, Kirov)
  • «Village.net» (Altay Drama Theater, Barnaul)
  • «Plus-minus twenty» («Ilkhom», Tashkent)
  • «Now a kiss!» (Prokopyevsky Drama Theater)

Director of the performances: 

  • «Dusty Day» (Center for Drama and Directing Kazantsev and Roshchin)
  • «Job» (Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov)
  • «Shavasana» (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold)
  • «Country of Moscow» (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold)

The teacher of the directing magistracy of Victor Ryzhakov (Center named after Vsevolod Meyerhold). 

Education program
  • 1 semester
  • 2 semester
  • 3 semester
  • 4 semester
2.

Learning outcomes in the first semester:
application for a course short film script.

The first semester includes:

Theory. Dramaturgy. Script. Structural approach. Typology of the plot. A controlling idea. Conversations. Hero. Conflict. Act. System of characters. Working with the document. Verbatim. Interview. Society. Subject search. Observation of reality.

Students work on script etudes and analyze the dramaturgy of the watched films.

Learning outcomes in the second semester: course script of a short film / application for a course script of a full-length film.

The second semester includes:

Forays into the city. Man as a document. Style as an art system. Conversations. Structural approach. Conversations. Draft and editing. Study of the great. Resource system. Autoarcheology. View optics. Installation and composition. Collage and applique. Organization of the scene. Seting. 

Students work on a short film script and conduct an analysis of the dramaturgy of the watched films.

Learning outcomes in the third semester: course script of a full-length film / application
for a graduation script of a full-length film.

The third semester includes:

Artistic time and art space. History of drama. History of literature. Analysis of the script. Watching films. Conversations. Actual. Genres. Artistic reception. Authentic and artistic. Conversations. Drama. Historical. Documentary. Comedy. Sitcom. Monologue.

In the third semester students work on a full-length course script and analyze the drama
of the watched films.

Learning outcomes in the fourth semester: graduation script of a full-length film.

The fourth semester includes:

Dialog. Throw line. Language. Speech facilities. Sources search. Reconstruction. Donor and prototype. Empathy. Mission. Affirmation of value. Irony and humor. Interpretation and version. Analysis
of the artistic text. Stylization. Reading. Practice. Writing skills. Conversations.

In the fourth semester students work on a full-length graduation script and conduct an analysis
of the drama of the watched films. At the end of the semester will be held the defense
of the graduation project.