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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
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DRAMA AND MUSIC
(POST RELATED)
Subject Code: 441
Total Marks-200
Part-I
(Drama/Theatre)
Marks – 100
Part 1. Dramatic Literature and History of Theatre: 30
a. Theatre of Ancient Greece;
b. Roman Theatre;
c. Classical Sanskrit Theatre;
d. Elizabethan Theatre;
e. French Neo-classic Theatre;
f. Western Theatre of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century;
g. Indigenous Theatre of Bengal/Bangladesh;
h. Colonial and post-colonial Theatre of Bengal/Bangladesh.
Part 2. Theory of Drama and Performance: 30
a. The Poetics by Aristotle;
b. The Natyashastra by Bharatmuni;
c. Neo-classic criticism;
d. Symbolism;
e. Expressionism;
f. Epic Theatre;
g. Theatre of the Absurd;
h. Postmodernism;
i. Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh.
Part 3. Theater as Practice: 30
a. Theory of Acting (Konstantin Stanislavshy, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Jerzy
Grotoeski);
b. Principles of Play Direction;
c. The Elements and the Principles of Set Design;
d. Basic Concepts of Light Design;
e. The Elements and the Principles of Costume Design;
f. Concepts of Makeup.
Part 4. Applied Theatre: 10
a. Theatre for Development;
b. Theatre in Education;
c. Television Drama.