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MEANINGFULNESS VS. AMUSINGNESS
Lesák, Jan ; BORNA, Jan (advisor) ; TICHÝ, Zdeněk (referee)
The aim of the thesis is a reflection of two of my theatre productions, How to Run a Marathon and The Chameleon, in terms of their meaningfulness and amusingness. The work on both productions led me to believe that the higher amount of meaning a stage project carries, the less it is amusing. Having however seen many productions which I consider highly meaningful and amusing at the same time, I decided to explore the original notion in order to discover the actual relation between meaningfulness and amusingness. The thesis therefore defines my notion of amusingness and my notion of meaningfulness. An analysis of those notions leads to the conclusion that I find amusingness without meaning unamusing, and a meaning that is not delivered in an amusing manner I consider uncommunicable. Therefore: not only are
meaningfulness and amusingness not in opposition, they even can hardly exist one without the other. My biggest mistake in the creation of the stage productions was therefore separating those two aspects. In my further stage direction practice I would like to work with meaningfulness and amusingness together in such a manner that they both mutually support each other and organically come out of one another.
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Analysis of the Market of Credit Vouchers on Faculty of Economics, University of Economics in Prague
Borna, Jan ; Hudík, Marek (advisor) ; Chytilová, Helena (referee)
This paper examines the determinants of market price of credit vouchers. Based on the analysis of the specifics of the market, we create a model describing the formation of market price. We estimate the model by ordinary least squares on dataset of 103 transactions containing all necessary data of the original 436 transaction data. There is found a rapid decrease in market price with time associated with discovered gradual centralization of the market, which is profitable for the buyers particularly because of highly inelastic supply. We have also discovered and quantified significant transaction costs for buyers. There is found none apparent connection between the prevailing market price and the frequency of donation.
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Differences in an Actor´s Approach Towards Shakespeare´s Text in Czech and Anglo-Saxon Countries.
Guruncz, Josef ; Neumann, Julius (advisor) ; Borna, Jan (referee)
This thesis is an analysis of the differences which exist in an actor´s and director´s approach towards Shakespeare´s texts in Czech and Anglo-Saxon countries. The aim of the thesis is not a literary content analysis; emphasis is put on the approach of actors or other theatrical artists towards Shakespeare´s plays. By using the word approach in this context it is meant, how actors, directors or production teams work with Shakespeare´s texts and to what extent they are inspired by it during rehearsal. The main method of research is interviews with theatre artists from both cultures and a significant part of the thesis contains the synthesis of the interviews. The author´s own experience, information gained from relevant literature and opinions from the people with whom the interviews have been led has shown, that differences in an actor´s and director´s approach towards Shakespeare´s text in these cultures are predominantly a result of translation, socio-political development and a diverse way of perception of theatres in the countries.
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