TheatraliaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5817/TY2020-2-19
Kateřina Šalounová
{"title":"Conference report: Experience as a research method in performing arts. Where conference style makes strides?","authors":"Kateřina Šalounová","doi":"10.5817/TY2020-2-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-2-19","url":null,"abstract":"The Theatre Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno has been organising international doctoral conferences since 2003. The founders of the tradition were Professor Josef Kovalčuk, Professor Petr Oslzlý, and Professor Pentii Paavolainen of Helsinki Theatre Academy. The conference was originally established as a discussion forum for the doctoral students of various theatre schools and has continued the tradition of being a discussion forum for the open-minded ever since. Since 2015, the Conference has been embracing interdisciplinary approaches to the study of dramaturgy with the emphasis on problem-oriented papers. The topic of 2015 Conference was Artistic Research, and in 2017 it was dedicated to Political Issues. In 2019, the Conference organizers focused on the experience as a research method employed in the Performing Arts. Traditionally, the speakers came from the Czech and Slovak Republics, as well as from Germany, Finland, Romania, Greece, Sweden, Poland and the Philippines. An interesting highlight of the 2019 Conference was the experimenting with the forms of the papers and the ways of their presentation to the audience, obviously stipulated by the topic of discussion. Conference Report: Experience as a Research Method in Performing Arts. Where does conference style make strides?","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71356570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5817/TY2020-2-10
Karolína Stehlíková, Christian Lollike
{"title":"'I hope that the debates the performances stimulate will change something' : interview with Danish playwright Christian Lollike","authors":"Karolína Stehlíková, Christian Lollike","doi":"10.5817/TY2020-2-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-2-10","url":null,"abstract":"Christian Lollike (b. 1973) studied philosophy and literature at the University of Roskilde. Between 1998 and 2001, he also studied stage writing at the Danish School of Art at the Aarhus Theatre. He writes radio plays, screenplays and drama, which he also stages himself. His work also includes sculpture, concert, ballet, opera, and action art. In 2005–2011, he worked at the Aarhus Theatre as a regular author and director. Today he is the artistic director at Copenhagen’s Sort/Hvid Theater (formerly Café Teatret), which focuses on performative art. Lollike received several awards. He won 2013 Playwright Award for his plays Shaft (Skakten), Cake Factory (Kagefabrikken) and for the dramatization of the manifesto of the Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik, Manifest 2083. His staging of Danish classic Erasmus Montanus in the Aarhus Teater in 2017 resulted in three Reumert Awards. In his plays, Lollike deals with the political and moral problems of contemporary Western world. His texts are often provocative and controversial, revealing the dark sides of modern society. They address many diverse issues such as prostitution, media and advertising, church, euthanasia, immigration and terrorism, and environmental crisis. Several of Lollike’s plays were translated and staged in the Czech Republic. The play The Ordinary Life (Det normale liv), directed by Josef Kačmarčík, was staged by the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava in 2017. This interview is one of the outputs of the course in Contemporary Scandinavian Drama held at the Department of Theatre Studies during the spring term 2020. After reading a selected play by Christian Lollike, students were asked to think of some questions for the playwright. Some questions were then sent to Christian Lollike, who kindly answered them via e-mail during June 2020.","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71356561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-10
J. Holmberg
{"title":"Film jako zajížďka. Ingmar Bergman jako spisovatel","authors":"J. Holmberg","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71356167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-4
A. Hanáčková, Tomáš Bojda
{"title":"Silent Bergman full of words","authors":"A. Hanáčková, Tomáš Bojda","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"Ingmar Bergman, in addition to producing a large number of films, also worked for the theatre and in radio. All of his activities were intertwined and influenced one another. The paper outlines Bergman’s traces in radio with an emphasis on Czech radio production. It reflects the biographic readings, monodrama, dialogic plays as well as more extensive plays which, thanks to their intimate setting, the intensity of relationships among characters and meaning, correspond to the character of Bergman’s late work. Relying on the analyses by Jess Kalin and radio theoreticians Martin Shingler and Cindy Wieringa, the authors look into the imaginativeness of Bergman’s plays with a particular focus on the dimensions of silence and words.","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46525133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-2
Romana Švachová
{"title":"Persona revisited : filling in the gaps via the original script","authors":"Romana Švachová","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I compare Bergman’s original script of Persona with its final film version and discuss several differences between the two. I focus on three larger alternations, namely on omitting several of Elizabeth’s replicas or transferring them to Alma as well as on a complete change of the ending scene. I speculate on how the dialogue and the scene would have changed the film if the director had not decided to modify or omit them, suggest possible reasons for such steps having been taken, and present arguments for how Bergman shifted to cinematic modernism and turned away from psychologizing during the process of making Persona. Furthermore, I breakdown and analyse the script version of the middle sequence of Persona, using positioning theory to uncover the motives behind Alma’s and Elizabeth’s verbal actions, and respectively the refusal of such action.","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48519533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-14
Tereza Zálešáková
{"title":"Much ado about Disney?","authors":"Tereza Zálešáková","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-14","url":null,"abstract":"The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen is not the first book on Disney’s musicals; nevertheless, it is probably the first collection of critical approaches to Disney’s musicals in such a wide range. Moreover, it is the very first publication on Disney musicals which is taken into consideration in the field of Czech theatre studies. The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from ‘Snow White’ to ‘Frozen’ consists of thirteen chapters which are split into three sections: Disney Musicals: On Film, Disney Adaptations: On Stage and Beyond, and Disney Musicals: Gender and Race. However, this distribution is only formal because regardless of the way of adaptation (for stage or screen) the main topics highlighted by the editor George Rodosthenous emerge in all these chapters. In a short introduction, Rodosthe nous establishes three main frameworks or perspectives for considering the Disney musical presentation. They ‘revisit musicals not only as popular entertainment or as a globalized commercial product, but firstly as a political tool for enhancing our understanding of race, sexuality, and gender, secondly as an educational tool for younger children and thirdly as a place for artistic innovation’ (2). This volume presents the Disney brand as a pioneering and innovative, philanthropic and educational tool as well as non-original, limited, Much Ado About Disney?","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44378029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-3
Bettina Perregaard
{"title":"The temporality of truth : deception and self-deception in Ingmar Bergman's The Best Intentions","authors":"Bettina Perregaard","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-3","url":null,"abstract":"Ingmar Bergman’s novel, The Best Intentions, is about the life and love of his parents. In transforming his parents into the characters, Henrik and Anna, Bergman offers a compelling analysis of the driving forces behind their real-life actions and choices. The paper draws from the work of the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, to demonstrate the way that Bergman‘s analysis is connected to a particular understanding of the dynamics of the self. I ask: how and why are Bergman’s two characters led to deception and self-deception during the most critical years of their lives? Bergman’s intuitions about the embodied, relational self arguably have to do with his experience as a stage director. Through his work, he is aware of the way that players distinguish between their own selves and the roles, characters, voices, and identities they perform. Bergman exploits the techniques, concepts, and metaphors of the theater in the narration of this story of a ‘life catastrophe’.","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45223943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TheatraliaPub Date : 2019-07-09DOI: 10.5817/TY2019-1-12
Jan-Marek Šík
{"title":"Writing film, writing literature : new Czech translations of four Ingmar Bergman's film short stories","authors":"Jan-Marek Šík","doi":"10.5817/TY2019-1-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2019-1-12","url":null,"abstract":"From the narratological point of view, the term story refers to the actual chronology of events in a narrative that is independent from its representation created by a concrete medium. Czech readers still possibly know better the film interpretations of Bergman’s short stories, but have now, thanks to the publishing house Kniha Zlín, got the possibility to acquaint themselves with four of his so called ‘film narratives’ published under the title Hodina vlků [Hour of the Wolf]. Apart from the short story of the same name (written 1966), the compilation contains texts called Shame (1967), The Passion of Anna (1968) and thematically related From the Life of Marionettes (1979). These texts came into existence during the same period as the films to which they served as a kind of manuscripts or textual outlines. The compilation was translated into Czech by Zbyněk Černík, who is also the author of the afterword that briefly introduces the context of their creation. The first film narrative Hour of the Wolf is from the included texts disputably the most literarily experimental. Although it contains notes that make its connection with the planned movie evident (such as ‘From here on, the text will be accompanied with film pictures ad libitum’, p. Writing Film, Writing Literature: New Czech Translations of Four Ingmar Bergman’s Film Short Stories","PeriodicalId":37223,"journal":{"name":"Theatralia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49576622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}