Trial by theatre

Titel: Trial by theatre : reports on Czech drama / Barbara Day
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Ausgabe: First edition
Veröffentlicht: Prague : Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2019
Umfang: 320 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Dramatica
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ISBN: 9788024639536
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. 7
  • Preface
  • p. 9
  • Introduction
  • p. 13
  • Prologue
  • p. 21
  • I
  • Bohemia Resurgent
  • p. 24
  • National Awakening
  • p. 24
  • National Theatre
  • p. 32
  • Arenas and Tingle Tangle, Cafés Chantants, and Cabaret
  • p. 42
  • Turn of the Century
  • p. 47
  • II
  • Independence: The Founding and Fall of the First Republic
  • p. 51
  • In the New Republic
  • p. 51
  • Devetsil and the Avant-Garde
  • p. 56
  • "The Daring Threesome": Honzl, Frejka, E. F. Burian
  • p. 62
  • Jindrich Honzl and the Dedrasbor
  • p. 62
  • Jin Frejka and Constructivism
  • p. 63
  • Honzl, Frejka, and the Liberated Theatre
  • p. 65
  • Frejka and the Theatre Dada
  • p. 67
  • E. F. Burian and the Voiceband
  • p. 68
  • Voskovec, Werich, and the Liberated Theatre
  • p. 69
  • Jaroslav Jezek and the Jazz Revue
  • p. 72
  • The Turn of the Decade
  • p. 73
  • The Prague Structuralists
  • p. 75
  • Frejka at the National Theatre
  • p. 76
  • E. E Burian and Décko
  • p. 79
  • The Fettered Theatre
  • p. 84
  • III
  • Under the Protectorate
  • p. 87
  • E. F. Burian and the Gestapo
  • p. 89
  • The Little Theatre for 99 and Occupied Prague
  • p. 92
  • Terezin and the Concentration Camps
  • p. 97
  • IV
  • Liberation, Victorious February, and What Became of the Avant-Garde
  • p. 99
  • Brief Window: 1945-1948
  • p. 99
  • Socialist Realism
  • p. 107
  • The Daring Threesome and the Thief of Happiness
  • p. 113
  • After Stalin
  • p. 118
  • V
  • The Golden Sixties
  • p. 121
  • Spring Awakening
  • p. 121
  • Akord Club, Reduta, and the Text-Appeal
  • p. 121
  • Otomar Krejca at the National Theatre
  • p. 127
  • Laterna magika
  • p. 136
  • The Theatre on the Balustrade
  • p. 137
  • Founding of the Theatre on the Balustrade
  • p. 137
  • Ivan Vyskocil at the Theatre on the Balustrade
  • p. 147
  • Jan Grossman at the Theatre on the Balustrade
  • p. 149
  • No Heroes Live in Thebes with Otomar Krejca
  • p. 155
  • The Invention of the Grenoble
  • p. 156
  • Vaclav Havel's The Garden Forty
  • p. 158
  • Ubu Roi, Beckett, and Ionesco
  • p. 162
  • Havel's The Memorandum
  • p. 166
  • Grossman's The Trial, and the End of an Era
  • p. 169
  • The State Theatre Studio (Státní divadelní studio) and Other Small Stages
  • p. 176
  • Origin of the State Theatre Studio
  • p. 176
  • Suchy, ¿litr, and Semafor
  • p. 177
  • Paravan
  • p. 184
  • The Drama Club (Cinoherní klub)
  • p. 185
  • Maringotka
  • p. 189
  • The Theatre of Jára da Cimrman
  • p. 191
  • Krejca at the Theatre Beyond the Gate
  • p. 193
  • Rokoko
  • p. 196
  • Viola
  • p. 197
  • Orfeus
  • p. 199
  • Evening Brno (Vecerní Brno)
  • p. 200
  • 1968
  • p. 201
  • VI
  • "Normalisation"
  • p. 203
  • The Theatre on the Balustrade and What Became of Jan Grossman
  • p. 209
  • The Theatre Beyond the Gate and What Became of Otomar Krejca
  • p. 213
  • The Fates of Machácek, Radok, and Schorm
  • p. 215
  • Semafor, Drama Club, and the End of the State Theatre Studio
  • p. 218
  • Václav Havel, Charter 77, and the Anti-Charter
  • p. 220
  • Irregular Dramaturgy
  • p. 223
  • Theatre [Goosej on a String
  • p. 230
  • HaDivadlo [Theatre of the Haná Region)
  • p. 241
  • Between Dog and Wolf
  • p. 242
  • VII
  • The Theatre and the Velvet Revolution
  • p. 249
  • Dramatis Personae
  • p. 263
  • Titles of Czech and Slovak Flays, Operas and Films
  • p. 293
  • Select Bibliography
  • p. 297
  • Notes
  • p. 304
  • Index
  • p. 312