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The article focuses on the stage designs of Antonín Heythum. Heythum's work during the interwar period is relatively well known and has been (somewhat incorrectly) aligned with Constructivist scenography. There are a number of materials for his designs for the Liberated Theatre (Osvobozené divadlo) (e.g. Circus Dandin, Když ženy něco slaví [When Women Celebrate]) and other Czech theatres (Olomouc,...
Nahum Tate's Restoration version of King Lear (1680 or 1681) managed to replace Shakespeare's original on English stages for more than a century and a half. While the efforts of David Garrick and George Colman to reinstate Shakespeare's plot and language in English theatres in the latter half of the eighteenth century have been acknowledged, little has been said in this respect about the late eighteenth-century...
With the beginning of the Normalisation period, the drama ensemble of the Slovak National Theatre lost its position as one of the most progressive Slovak theatres. From the group of in-house directors, only Pavol Haspra (1929–2004) was able to attract some attention. During this period, he began to choose titles seldomly performed in Slovakia. One of these was Shakespeare's King Lear (prem. 25. 10...
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