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Ferdinand Vaněk on the stage
Dvořáková, Jana ; Augustová, Zuzana (referee) ; Just, Vladimír (advisor)
During seventies and eighties, respecti vely in the period 1975 - 1985, nine new plays by four authors have emerged, mostly one-act plays, called together vaňkovky. They earned this label on basis of the identical name of the main character, which is Ferdinand Vaněk. Nevertheless "These plays lack firm common theme, rather they form only "occasional" stories/sketches a konto Ferdinand Vaněk than genuine dramas wi th strong self-supporting stories. ,,142 Some authors produced just one such play (Jiří Dienstbier Reception) , others two of them (Pavel Landovský Sanitary Night, Arrest) and some even three (Václav Havel Audience, Unveiling, Protest; Pavel Kohout Permit, Morass, Safari). Journey of vaňkovky to the stage was a complicated one. In the original years it was not only due difficulty of their staging. Most of them (Audience, Protest, Unveiling, Permit, Arrest) were premiered abroad, concretely in Viennese Burgtheater. Besides these world premieres did I turn my attention only to professional plus most significant non-professional productions presented in Czech Republic. In turn of the Velvet revolution in 1989 proscribed authors and plays were free to show on stages and vaňkovky could be seen with perhaps excessive frequency. This period, lasting approximately one and half year and expiring by the end...
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