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Modern Czech Theatre

Author : Jarka Burian
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587293358
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Modern Czech Theatre written by Jarka Burian and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Czech theatre in the twentieth century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger story: a theatre that has resonated with the intense concerns of its audiences acquires a significance and a force beyond anything created by striking individual talents or random stage hits. Amid the variety of performances during the past hundred years, that basic and provocative reality has been repeatedly demonstrated, as Jarka Burian reveals in his extraordinary history of the dramatic world of Czech theatre. Following a brief historical background, Burian provides a chronological series of perspectives and observations on the evolving nature of Czech theatre productions during this century in relation to their similarly evolving social and political contexts. Once Czechoslovak independence was achieved in 1918, a repeated interplay of theatre with political realities became the norm, sometimes stifling the creative urge but often producing even greater artistry. When playwright Václav Havel became president in 1990, this was but the latest and most celebrated example of the vital engagement between stage and society that has been a repeated condition of Czech theatre for the past two hundred years. In Jarka Burian's skillful hands, Modern Czech Theatre becomes an extremely important touchstone for understanding the history of modern theatre within western culture.

Czech Plays

Author : Barbara Day
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854590749
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Czech Plays written by Barbara Day and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergence of a dissident playwright as the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Czech tradition by which theatre mirrors political life came full circle. Ranging back over the three decades preceding the Velvet Revolution, these four plays show modern Czech writers skilfully commenting on current realities through historical and domestic themes. Published here for the first time in English, Vaclav Havel's Tomorrow!, written anonymously in 1988, is a historical comedy about the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. Games by novelist Ivan Klima shows a house party going badly wrong as old guilts break the surface. In Joseph Topol's Cat on the Rails two lovers wait for a train that never comes. And Dog and Wolf by the leading woman playwright Daniela Fischerova takes Francois Villon as exemplar of the clash between artist and society.

Czech Plays

Author : March Arlin
Publisher : Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Czech Plays written by March Arlin and published by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drábek, Lenka Lagronová, Jirí Pokorny, Ivana Ruzicková, Egon Tobiás, Iva Volánková, and Petr Zelenka.

Czech Drama Since World War II

Author : Paul I. Trensky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135169622X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Czech Drama Since World War II written by Paul I. Trensky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years between 1956 and 1970 Czech literature and theatre passed through a profoundly creative period, a renaissance or spiritual rebirth following an era of sterility that was the result of the forced imposition of the Stalinist dogma of socialist realism. This study is a first attempt, to define for us the character and originality of this era. This title was first published in 1978.

Czech Republic

Author : Debbie Nevins
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502636360
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Czech Republic written by Debbie Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landlocked Czech Republic is not a large country, but it has a rich history. Known for its architectural treasures, lush forests, and a strong literary heritage, the Czech Republic was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was united with Slovakia under the name Czechoslovakia before its peaceful independence in 1993. Since then, the Czech Republic has become a stable and prosperous parliamentary republic. Readers will learn more about this complex country and its distinctive culture in this engaging and informative book.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521244466
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900 written by Laurence Senelick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-25 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the emergence of a national feeling in the theatres of Northern and Eastern Europe from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

The Czechoslovak Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Czechoslovak Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25

Author : Karen Berman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370129
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25 written by Karen Berman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces. Globalization may strike many as a phenomenon of our own historical moment, but it is truly as old as civilization: we need only look to the ancient Silk Road linking the Far East to the Mediterranean in order to find some of the earliest recorded impacts of people and goods crossing borders. Yet, in the current cultural moment, tensions are high due to increased migration, economic unpredictability, complicated acts of local and global terror, and heightened political divisions all over the world. Thus globalization seems new and a threat to our ways of life, to our nations, and to our cultures. In what ways have theatre practitioners, educators, and scholars worked to support cross-cultural dialogue historically? And in what ways might theatre embrace the complexities and contradictions inherent in any meaningful exchange? The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 reflect on these questions. Featured in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 “Theatre as Cultural Exchange: Stages and Studios of Learning” by Anita Gonzalez “Certain Kinds of Dances Used among Them: An Initial Inquiry into Colonial Spanish Encounters with the Areytos of the Taíno in Puerto Rico” by E. Bert Wallace “Gertrude Hoffmann’s Lawful Piracy: ‘A Vision of Salome’ and the Russian Season as Transatlantic Production Impersonations” by Sunny Stalter-Pace “Greasing the Global: Princess Lotus Blossom and the Fabrication of the ‘Orient’ to Pitch Products in the American Medicine Show” by Chase Bringardner “Dismembering Tennessee Williams: The Global Context of Lee Breuer’s A Streetcar Named Desire” by Daniel Ciba “Transformative Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Prague: Americans Creating Czech History Plays” by Karen Berman “Finding Common Ground: Lessac Training across Cultures” by Erica Tobolski and Deborah A. Kinghorn

Czech Plays in English Translation

Author : Rachael Hauck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Czech Plays in English Translation written by Rachael Hauck and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre

Author : Jarka M. Burian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136465782
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre written by Jarka M. Burian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian provides us with insightful portraits of the directors K. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the famous Voskovec and Werich comedic duo; of the scenographer Josef Svoboda; and of the playwright, now President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. There are also briefer studies of numerous other directors, designers, and actors. The author, a Czech-American theatre scholar and practitioner, has been a frequent on-site observer of Czech theatre since 1965. He is directly acquainted with many of the major artists and the most notable productions that have made Czech theatre internationally famous.

Theatre and Performance in Eastern Europe

Author : Dennis Barnett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810860230
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Performance in Eastern Europe written by Dennis Barnett and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles about contemporary theatre and performance history in Eastern Europe. It considers the ways the socio-political change has affected theatre and performance in countries such as Russia, the former Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, particularly after the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Czech Opera

Author : John Tyrrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347136
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Czech Opera written by John Tyrrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the grandest and most potent cultural expression of the nationalist movement which led to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. During this period Czech opera developed into a genre of major artistic importance cultivated by composers of the stature of Smetana, Dvorák and Janácek. Czech Opera examines opera in its national contexts, and is a study not only of operas written in Czech, but also of the specific circumstances which shaped them. These include the historical and political background to the period, the theatres in which Czech plays and operas were first performed, and the composers and performers who worked in them. The role of the librettists is given particular prominence and is complemented by a detailed chapter on the subject matter of the librettos shedding light on the subject matter of the historical and mythic background of the genre.

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance

Author : Ralf Remshardt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000913643
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance written by Ralf Remshardt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.

Prague

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140315
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Derek Sayer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Prague was a closed book to most travelers. Today, it is Europe’s fifth-most-visited city, surpassed only by London, Paris, Istanbul, and Rome. With a stunning natural setting on the Vltava river and featuring a spectacular architectural potpourri of everything from Romanesque rotundas to gothic towers, Renaissance palaces, Baroque churches, art nouveau cafés, and cubist apartment buildings, Prague may well be Europe’s most beautiful capital city. But behind this beauty lies a turbulent and often violent history, and in this book, Derek Sayer explores both. Located at the uneasy center of the continent, Prague has been a crossroads of cultures for more than a millennium. From the religious wars of the middle ages and the nationalist struggles of the nineteenth century to the modern conflicts of fascism, communism, and democracy, Prague’s history is the history of the forces that have shaped Europe. Sayer also goes beyond the complexities of Prague’s colorful past: his expert, very readable, and exquisitely illustrated guide helps us to see what Prague is today. He not only provides listings of what to see, hear, and do and where to eat, drink, and shop, but also offers deep personal reflection on the sides of Prague tourists seldom see, from a model interwar modernist villa colony to Europe’s biggest Vietnamese market.

Provincional Theater and Its Opera

Author : Jiří Kopecký
Publisher : Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci
ISBN 13 : 8087895517
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Provincional Theater and Its Opera written by Jiří Kopecký and published by Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a model essay on the functioning of a municipal German-language theatre, and it introduces a new view into research led by both theatre scientists and musicologists on the European scene. The book is conceived as social history of a citizen's cultural institution and interprets a wide range of problematic themes which we meet to this day in the everyday practice of municipal theatres.