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The poetics of selected plays by Roland Schimmelpfennig performed on Czech theatre stages in the context of the contemporary German-speaking theatre
Celárková, Michaela ; Augustová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
This thesis presents the work of a contemporary German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig in a wider context. In the main chapter, the author focuses on the analysis of five Schimmelpfennig's plays that have been performed also on Czech theatre stages. The analysis emphasizes the elements of a dramatic structure that Schimmelpfennig uses in an innovative way: epization of texts, unrealistic treatment of dramatic time, elements of magic realism etc. The author also pays attention to a general characteristic of a contemporary German-speaking theatre with respect to the topics that it deals with. A significant part of the work is devoted to classifying Roland Schimmelpfennig's work in the historical and theoretical context of a contemporary German-speaking theatre. A book called Die Rückkehr der Helden by a German author Nikolaus Frei, which questions some opinion on the recent development of theatre presented in a book Postdramatisches Theater by Hans Thiese Lehmann, has become a crucial source for this thesis. Nikolaus Frei copes with the question of animateness/inanimateness of theatre and by using extracts from particular dramatic texts by contemporary authors proves a possible continuity of mimesis, realistic acting and conflicts on the stage until the 21st century. In conclusion, it is possible...
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Martin McDonagh and The Leenane Trilogy
Březinová, Tereza ; Jiřík, Jan (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
Tereza Březinová, DiS. Martin McDonagh a The Leenane Trilogy 1 Abstract in English The subject of the thesis is the work of playwright Martin McDonagh and in particular the so- called Leenane trilogy, which consists of his plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara and The Lonesome West. The first part of the thesis attempts to put McDonagh's work in the context of then-contemporary culture and literature, briefly outlines his journey towards writing for the theatre and seeks his inspirational sources, which are observed not only in the tradition of Irish drama, but also in a general pop-cultural context of the English- speaking world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the second part, the Leenane trilogy is a subject of analysis, with special attention to the character of Father Welsh, who (in spite of not being a leading character in either of the plays and not even appearing directly in two of them) proves to be a notable thematic link within the trilogy. Along with that, the thesis also discusses the way the trilogy's characters relate themselves (through their approach towards Father Welsh) to the Church and questions of faith.
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Directorials methods of Yoshi Oida in productions Death in Venice and Ideomeneo
Vlčková, Kateřina ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Christov, Petr (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the directorial methods of Japanese actor, director and professor of acting Yoshi Oida in two productions which were performed in Prague, Death in Venice in Státní opera Praha and Idomeneo in Stavovské divadlo. The first part try to cover Yoshi Oida's professional life in chronological order, namely his theatrical performances. The second part is devoted to the short historical contexts of traditional Japanese theatre and the influences in Yoshi Oida's professional life. The third part is devoted to the history and the inspirations sources of two operas, scenography of two productions in Prague and the comparison of the common and different directorial methods. The final section aim to reconstruct Yoshi Oida's directorial methods in Death in Venice and Idomeneo.
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Albee's Everything in the Garden in Czech Theatrical Context
Hrádková, Šárka ; Topolová, Barbara (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
Edward Albee is one of the most important American playwrights. He has successfully written his plays since the sixties of the twentieth century. Since then Albees'plays have been often staged in our country. His adaptation of Cooper's work - Everything in the Garden-is one of the most played Albee's title on Czech and Moravian stages (the same amount of production achieves drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf). Since 1969, when Everything in the Garden was translated by František Vrba and played in Divadlo S.K.Neumanna, this drama achieved twelve representations. Everything in the Garden was especially played in regional theaters. In 1997, the title was chosen by Městské divadlo Brno and in 2008 the latest production of this text was started in Městská divadla pražská, in Divadlo ABC, with a new translation by Dana Hábová. It is possible to see political and social development in our country in the transformation of individual production and critical response to them.
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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.
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The Peach Blossom Fan in Dlouha Theatre: Performance Analysis
Žemlová, Michaela ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Christov, Petr (referee)
The goal of the Master thesis is to analyze the performance of Peach Blossom Fan produced by Dlouha Theatre. The analysis takes into account the theory of high-context and low-context cultures and the phenomenon of intercultural theatre. The analysis itself charecterizes components of performance, principles and shifts, occuring between the drama, in which are emphasised changes in a structure finally projected into performance.
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Dramatizations of Larger Epic Pieces Designed for a Child Actor
Hrnečková, Anna ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Kočí, Julie (referee)
This thesis analyses the dramatizations of larger epic units, which have appeared on the Czech national (or regional) shows of children's theatre since 1989. After characterizing the role of dramatic text created for the theatre played by children, the work attempts to establish the evaluation criteria for the dramatization of the investigated area. With regard to the artistic and educational objectives, the work compares the composition, language and thematic basis of selected texts. At the centre of attention are those means of adaptation which acquire particular significance especially in connection with a child actor; ways of creating adult characters, the depiction of the inner world of children's heroes etc. The main task of this text analysis is to answer the question about how far the authors were able to get within the narrow borders brought on by focusing on child actors up to fifteen years of age.
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Argentinian, Brazilian and Mexican Discourses in Contemporary Latin American Drama
Černá, Martina ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Katedra divadelní vědy Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury Divadelní věda Argentinské, brazilské a mexické diskurzy v současné latinskoamerické dramatice Argentinian, Brazilian and Mexican Discourses in Contemporary Latin American Drama Discursos argentinos, brasileños y mexicanos en la dramaturgía latinoamericana contemporánea Abstract of the doctoral thesis Mgr. Martina Černá vedoucí práce: Mgr. Petr Christov, PhD. 2011 2 Abstract The thesis Argentinian, Brazilian and Mexican Discourses in Contemporary Latin American Drama deals with the situation in contemporary Latin American theatre on the basis of theatre plays by three contemporary playwrights from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. This situation is considered not only from the point of view of text analysis, but mainly with respect to the discourses which the authors hold with their readers/spectators on local, national, continental and international levels. The introductory part of the work presents the subject of Latin American identity and describes the criteria how particular playwrights, texts as well as methods and tools for their analysis have been chosen. However, it is important to emphasize that their interpretation is made in the Czech context which is culturally, historically and socially...
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Danish Theatre and Drama in the 1990s
Švehlová, Táňa ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
DANISH THEATRE AND DRAMA IN 1990'S TÁŇA ŠVEHLOVÁ Abstract: The thesis deals with the blom of Danish drama in the 1990s. The first chapter Theatre Context concerns the cultural-political grounds for the development of new writing for theatre, and introduces the most significant theatres that to stage Danish drama. The second chapter Dramatics in the 1990's is a literary-historical approach to 9 of the most important playwrights' work (N.Cederholm, E. Jepsen, J. Ørnsbo, A. Saalbach, J. Rohde, M. Vizki, P. Asmussen, N. Werdelin, L. Knutzon). The final chapter presents a practical insight into Danish drama via an anylysis of Line Kunzon's drama Soon the Time Will Come (Snart kommer tiden, 1998).
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