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Structural approach to theatre was developed in the late 1930s and during the WW2 in frame of Prague Circle (“PLC”) as a result of an activist approach to scholarship and close collaboration between theatremakers and scholars. Although the connection between avant-garde aesthetic of 1930s and structuralist writing on theatre has been already described, there are more important relations beyond that...
The present study, based on a bachelor thesis of the same title, presents a limited number of outcomes from vast scale of activities the Czech Scenographic Institute carried out over some fifteen years of its existence, especially those connected to the use of various types of spaces for theatrical productions. Another point of reference is the personality of Miroslav Kouřil, head of the institute,...
Biography of Russian director, playwright and art theoretician Nikolai Nikolayevich Evreinov (1879, Moscow – 1953, Paris) based on Russian and French sources covers his theatre activities from the start till 1925, the year of his emigration. Despite being one of the most important personalities of Russian Silver Age, Evreinov was erased from the official records after he had left Russia, his memory...
Based on careful study of archival materials the study presents the research, newspaper writing and political activities of Jiří Veltruský, covering especially the years of his studies at university and after the WWII. The author pinpoints, for example, Veltruský’s theatre activities with secondary-school students in the Avant-Garde Theatre Group of the Youth, his political engagement, and close relations...
The study explores theoretical works and managing activities of Czech set-designer Miroslav Kouřil (1911–1984). First part is devoted to two crucial periods in Kouřil’s professional life: his career of a stage designer, and the following involvement in theoretical reception of theatre and practical organization of theatre life in the then Czechoslovakia. In the second part, attention is drawn to Kouřil’s...
Erin Hurley and Sara Warner in their insightful study “Affect/Performance/Politics” (2012) remind us that humanities and social sciences today experience a new sweep of theoretical inquiry, focusing on studying affect as a leading mechanism of our cognition and communication, as well as making and receiving art products. This paper takes this theoretical proposition further. I argue that although...
The current paper is the first of the forthcoming studies dealing with the dramaturgy of and productions in Brno State Theatre in late 1950s and 1960s. The authors present the principal questions, study material, and methodology of their research, supported by a grant project, which has been launched only recently inquiring into the artwork of the generation of director Miloš Wasserbauer, and the...
Jindřich Honzl’s seminal essay on the “Dynamics of the Sign in the Theater” from 1940 serves as the point of departure for discussing the borderline between the building (or site) where the performance event takes place and its mimetic dimensions, through which the scenography or scenery as well as the acting and all the other elements of a particular production create a specific fictional world,...
The article deals with Jiří Veltruský’s ideas about the relation between the literary drama and the theatre. Veltruský speaks in favour of a reunion between both art kinds, whose theoretical and institutional separation began in the late nineteenth century. Arguing that the theatre suffers intellectually and aesthetically from the separation Veltruský refers to Jan Mukařovský’s studies on the dialogue...
The study explores the exchange of impulses and ideas between the three fields indicated in the title, presenting Petr Bogatyrev as their mediator. It is concerned, among other things, with Bogatyrev connecting the findings of French sociologically-oriented ethnologists, such as Emil Durkheim and Luciene Lévy-Bruhl, and German ethnologists (Hans Neumann) to the theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle...
The name of Olga Srbová (16. 7. 1914–14. 4. 1987) has almost fallen into oblivion, as she stopped to use her maiden surname after she entered into marriage with actor Jaromír Spal, being known as Olga Spalová since then. Therefore, she is mostly known for her later, post-war engagement in radio; but the first stop in her career, and her life’s love, was theatre. Olga Srbová started her university...
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