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This article points out the necessity to research theatrical life in Moravia separately while its development until 1918 differed enormously from that in Bohemia and Silesia, as the author claims. The research has to go much further than understanding theatre history as a picture of isolated national cultures. The multicultural aspect of theatrical life has to be respected, considering the fact that...
The study focuses primarily on the personality of Jiří Kárnet and his works which seem to have been under-reflected so far. Being among the first exiles after 1948, Kárnet had to cope with difficult conditions and lack of chance to publish his texts; therefore, most of his works remained as manuscripts. This paper is based on works and pieces of information from Kárnet's inheritance, trying to draw...
It is the transfer of a theatrical conception that stands in the centre of this study. It focuses primarily on the activities of the student ensemble Umění mladých, whose members joined Petr Bezruč Theatre in 1959, and confronts the earlier activities of Petr Bezruč Theatre with those of the following five seasons in which the Academy of Performaing Arts students became part of the ensemble. Thus,...
As its title suggests, the study focuses on the playwriting of Joe Penhall. Besides a detailed analysis of Penhall's two latest plays Haunted Child (2011) and Birthday (2012), the author contextualizes both texts and points to all crucial themes and motives repeatedly present in Penhall's plays. Moreover, both Czech and British productions (Royal Court Theatre) are being mentioned.
The study demonstrates the way in which Czech theatre avant-garde influenced the development of interwar theatre in Moravia. Its author reflects the situation in Brno, Ostrava, and Olomouc. As for Brno, the confrontation of non-traditional poetics of the Prague avant-garde scenes like The Liberated Theatre and the theatres Dada and Modern Studio with the conservatism of official theatre stages is...
The study focuses on the texts linked to the earliest phase of kabuki – the dance-and-sung performances of the girl named Izumi-no Okumi in Kjoto, 1603. Obtaining those texts at a study stay in the Theatre Museum of Waseda University (Tokio), the author has aimed to prove the relation of early kabuki performances and the antecedent tradition of nó theatre. One of the texts proves to be monogatari...
Based both on archival material and Veltruský's theoretical works, the study maps Jiří Veltruský's interest in Asian theatre and its influence on his thinking of theatre. Individual examples help to demonstrate the ways in which principles of Asian theatrical forms manifest themselves in Veltruský's structuralist and semiotic conceptions, such as character, sign, principles of semiosis, actor's/acting...
The authors focus on the opera in Olomouc (located on Upper square) and its relation to Vienna. During the hundred years of existence in question, the productions were permanently compared to those in Vienna. The same counts for their repertoire; furthermore, the fact that Vienna was close to Olomouc ended up in a mutual interchange of artists. Vienna opera teachers recommended their students and...
The study reflects the situation of Brno Municipal Theatre during 1770‒1771, years in which the transformation from a stagione to a steady institution of art was provoked. Its dramaturgical plan fulfilled the enlightenment demands. This process was initiated by a group of actors under the director K. A. Schaumberg, a man who promoted the late-Baroque style of theatre. The revolting group was led by...
The present study deals with the analysis of narrative style in the film production in the Czech lands between 1911‒1915; it presents, in particular, a comparison of two distinct narrative trends, one present in the films of the Kinofa company and the second one represented by the films made with ASUM with special regard to the former ones. The analysed material is perceived from two different perspectives:...
The study presents an interpretative analysis of the theatrical aspects of the First May celebrations in the Czechoslovakia in 1948, mass event with crucial importance for the Communist regime, which was then only taking over political power in the country. First step of the analysis is an historical overview of the First may celebrations in the world, followed by a description and characterization...
The present paper deals with the messenger character from the perspective of transformation of its function in drama regarding its presence and use in the history of drama where it focuses on messenger figures in Sophocles' Oedipus King and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and in the context of contemporary mainstream British drama in the plays Arcadia by Tom Stoppard and Copenhagen by Mychael...
Focus of the present study is the Sokol gathering parade in 1948, which became a massive demonstration of disagreement with the on-setting Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Originally meant to be a unity ritual celebrating renewal after the end of WWII, the gathering soon turned into the conflict ritual between democratic and totalitarian part of the Czechoslovak society. The aim of the study, exploring...
The present paper introduces definitions of the key concepts that frame the research on the theatricality of public events held at the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, since 2010. The overview presents concepts such as theatricality, performance, and symbolic aspects of acting as well as the concept of "theatre as a cultural model" (i.e. theatre in the...
The present theoretical study introduces basic types of narrating in drama derived from the Pfister's model of epic communication structures in drama. Various narrative strategies, e.g. the projected stage director, voice-over, generic and narrator on the stage, alienated and retrograde narration, etc., are being presented with regard to their possible further application as a poetic tool for literary...
The present study briefly outlines the history of narratology from its beginnings in France in the 1960s to the present. It presents basic theoretical and methodological starting points used in a narratological research of narration, the most important theoretical concepts and directions and their representatives. It is divided into three parts, in which the author deals with three stages of development...
The aim of the present paper is to discuss the thin border dividing ritual and non-ritual activity by contrasting two opposing theories of ritualization: one perceiving ritualization as a static phenomenon, the other as a dynamic process. Since the author favors the latter, he stresses the crucial importance of corporeality as the source and vehicle of (embryonic) ritual forms. The article further...
The paper "Two types of narrative strategies – two types of suspense" presents several general points concerning the structure of theatre performance examined by means of narratology and reception theory. The author explores strategies that enable a theatre director to attract spectators and engage them in an active participation in the performance. Analysis of two types of suspense is presented:...
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...
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...
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