|
|
What is the Czech operagoer like?
Řeháková, Kateřina ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Augustová, Zuzana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis compiles the results of the sociologic-marketing research on the Czech opera audience in all ten Czech opera houses elaborated by the Music Theatre Society and supported by the Ministry of Culture's grant. It displays sociological a demographic structure of the opera audience and tries to find out their marketing potential and the consequences for managements of opera theatres in the Czech Republic.
|
|
|
Changes of carnival in history with particular research in northern Italy
Jirkalová, Hana ; Just, Vladimír (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
This thesis tries to summarize theme of carnival and to define its evolution and its changes in the course of history. This thesis tries to find differences and also connection between the theatre and the carnival world especially as regards playing space, masks, costumes, reguisites, borders between spectators end performers and convention. Thesis also documents three selected carnivals in Italy where the carnival elements are applied in the concrete cases.
|
|
|
Tadeusz Kantor and The Theatre of Death
Veselá, Tereza ; Jiřík, Jan (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
Bachelor thesis is concerned with production of Polish avantgard author Tadeusz Kantor. The work is focused on the last epoch of his theatre production as an author (the epoch is called The Theatre of Death), concretely on inscenation The Dead Class and Wielopole, Wielopole. Bachelor thesis could be divided into three thematic parts. First part tries to observe basic historical terminuses in Tadeusz Kantor's work, previous epochs of theatre Cricot 2 and the most important performances. This part should serve to easier understanding methods of staging procedures during the epoch of The Theatre of Death and it should also approximate the questions, which interested Kantor. Second part is concerned with two concrete productions of The Theatre of Death and tries to analysis them. It also touches the issue of preservation theatre work through audiovisual records. Third part is focused on individual staging procedures. Bachelor thesis tries to define the point of Kantor's work on the basis of staging procedures. The point of Kantor's work is to create new form of theatre which do not manage with illusive staging of drama and with pretending of reality.
|
|
|
Community aspect of site specific projects
Jurášová, Johana ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Topolová, Barbara (referee)
The participants of site-specific projects that had their boom in our country in 1998-2008 consider the aspect of community to be a crucial part, which made the event a unique experience for them. Those people came to the project of various theatrical and non-theatrical groups and this paper traces what really underpins this feeling and what all these people were after. Due to the lack of other documentation, I conducted three interviews with former participants and organizers, which, along with the mostly documentary publications by Denisa Václavová and Tomáš Žižka, became my primary sources. After formulating criteria to help categorize the range of projects that have taken place, I move on to analyse two of them. The latter is designed to find the principles taken from community art that form the added value of the projects. Then, on the basis of the previous analysis, I formulate what elements actually constitute the experience described by the participants.
|
|
|
Critical view on selected artworks of Kateřina Šedá
Jalůvková, Kristýna ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Sarkissian, Alena (referee)
The diploma thesis A Critical View of Selected Works by Kateřina Šedá focuses on the work of the contemporary Czech artist Kateřina Šedá, an icon of socially engaged art in the Czech Republic. The first part briefly outlines the development and transformation of the approach to the audience in theatrical and fine arts during 20th century with regard to the growing effort to activation. The following chapter deals with the theoretical beginnings of socially engaged art. The main part of the work presents the work of Kateřina Šedá, which includes beside the description of selected projects also a theoretical analysis in relation to contemporary phenomena and movements occurring in contemporary art. Great emphasis is placed on the contextual framework, because without the knowledge of it, the study of contemporary artistic trends cannot be done.
|
|
|
Human and liturgy. The Holy Mass and the psychology of today's human
Joštová, Nikola ; Tichý, Radek (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
Man and liturgy. Mass and psychology of today's man. This theses deals with the celebration of the Holy Mass with an emphasis on the needs of today's man in terms of modern psychology. In the first part the work will deal with contemporary man, his values and spirituality. In the next part it will try to approach the celebration of the Holy Mass in connection with the values and needs of contemporary man from the psychological point of view. He asks whether the celebration of the Holy Mass, as we know it today, corresponds to the current needs or values of today's man. It considers possible forms of celebration of worship that would best meet the aforementioned human needs.
|
|
|
Practice of the music component of liturgical life in the Prague Archdiocese
Žák, Přemysl ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Tichý, Radek (referee)
Practice of the music component of liturgical life in the Prague Archdiocese A probe into music liturgical practice in the selected parishes The aim of this paper is to make the preview to the current practice of liturgical music in the Prague Archdiocese. For this purpose, several parishes are selected according to certain criteria for a questionnaire survey. The theoretical part deals with the starting points for the definition of the notion of "liturgical music" and with the development of understanding of its function in the magisterial documents of the 20th century. It also assessess the real impact of these documents, especially those of the Vatican Council II., on the situation in the Czech Republic. The practical part is devoted to a questionnaire survey. First, the areas covered by the survey are set out. On this basis, questions are then formulated for the priests of the parishes. The results are processed and evaluated in comparison with the magisterial documents. The questionnaire is distributed in the form of an online survey, which allows easier filling out and evaluation.
|
|
|
Xenophobic Motives in the Spanish Late-Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Kučera, Mojmír ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Christov, Petr (referee)
The aim of my work is to explore the motives of racial and national prejudice in the drama of the Spanish Golden age. On selected examples from the late Renaissance and early Baroque plays, I reflect on the frequency and expressiveness of racially defaming allusions and attitudes based on delegitimization and discrimination of ethnic groups in the religiously and nationally consolidating state. I also notice the development of contemporary xenophobic motives, targeted at members of nations professing Islam and Judaism, as well as other "pagan" ethnic groups. Using literature I try to classify these motives, alternatively to set them into a contemporary historical and biographical context.
|
|
|
Selected Adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Works in the Czech Theatre
Duchková, Rachel ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
THE ABSTRACT This bachelor thesis deals with the process of adapting Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel into a dramatic text by Stephen Briggs, both in Jan Kantůrek's czech translation. The aproach is a combination of a literary, theatrological and partly dramaturgical, mainly based on literature dealing with the transposition of semantic material between two different semiotic systems. Simultaneously considering the problematics of dramatization as an interdisciplinary phenomenon. The aim of the practical part of the work is to compile a functional methology for comparative analysis, through which it is possible to observe the thematic shift of the dramatization text compared to the pretext. This methology should be based on the aquired knowledge summarized in the theoretical part of the. Final part of work aims to apply this methology to specific works and evaluate the degree of thematic displacement.
|
|
|
Actor's authenticity
Smetana, Vojtěch ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Sarkissian, Alena (referee)
The diploma thesis juxtaposes Heidegger's concept of authenticity and the notion of an actor supported by the most prominent theories of acting in the 20th century. In an attempt to explore the actor's relationship to authenticity, the thesis also tries to find the common areas of phenomenology and theater studies. The main question of the work is if the theory of authenticity of Dasein can be applied to an actor. The question is answered by the text itself in an effort to apply Heidegger's authenticity to an actor.
|
guest ::
