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Pervasivity in Live Art
Brychta, Lukáš ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; PŠENIČKA, Martin (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to offer an application of the concept of pervasivity on the field of live art. The first chapter introduces the concept as it was defined in the field of game studies, mainly by scholars of Tampere school. To fill this aim it makes use of terminology coming chiefly from social sciences. The second chapter describes the relationship between game and theatre including their common as well as dissimilar features and then adapts the pervasivity concept for the theatre field. The third chapter brings possible applications of the concept by presenting three examples of a piece's confrontation of everydayness: through accentation, fabrication and construction. The conclusion sums up possible pervasive moments in the examined pieces of art.
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Kitsch and Theatre
Haplová, Barbora ; KAPLICKÝ, Martin (advisor) ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis tries to capture the general characterics of kitsch. It attempts to find these characterics in a particular theatre production. In terms of general principles of kitsch I am trying to show how kitsch can become a subject of a theatre production. In the first theoretical part I worked mainly with Kitsch and Art, a book by Tomáš Kulka, and with various texts by Jan Mukařovský, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Ludwig Giesz, Matei Calinescu, Václav Černý etc. The theoretical part analyses Petr Kolečko's play Buchty a bohyně directed by Jan Frič and Lukas Bärfuss' play Dvacet tisíc stránek directed by Zuzana Burianová, both final productions of graduating students under the Department of Dramatic Theatre DAMU.
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on the principles of kitsch in connection with the youngest generation of theatre artists. I am trying to apply general esthetical theory on particular theatre productions. In the analytical part I am working mainly with these productions, with a Czech play Buchty a bohyně and a Swiss play Twenty thousand pages translated by Magdalena Štulcová and adapted by Helena Kebrtová and Zuzana Burianová.
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Chekhov's Seagull in Dejvické and National Theatre
Loužný, Tomáš ; HRDINOVÁ, Radmila (advisor) ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is the description and analysis of two different performances of the play The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. It focuses on the similarities and differences in director's approach of Michal Vajdička (Dejvické divadlo) and Michal Dočekal (National Theatre of Prague) and it particularly accents interpretation of chosen characters from the play. As a part of analysis itself it puts side by side different approaches of directors in particular situations and it comes to constitutive conclusions, which are summarized at the end of the thesis. The overall conclusion is, that despite the fact, that the directors' approaches is differ, the themes stressed by the directors are almost the same.
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Dramatic text as an ideological direction
Součková, Kateřina ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; DROZD, David (referee)
Bachelor thesis Dramatic text as an ideological direction deals with an impulses, which can offer a dramatic text to a dramatic piece without endanger an autonomy neither of them. In order to find the ideological direction, it uses an explication as a "technological reading" of dramatic text, which is trying to discover its own motif-thematic structure without interpreted it. It analyses a charakter and a function of components of dramatic text, their mutual relation and their relation with a dramatic piece. This theoretic basis is being examinated by the explication of The Cherry Orchard by A. P. Chekhov. The motifs and the themes of this drama are confronted with the production of The Cherry Orchard at Theatre on the Balustrade in Prague. On grounds of this comparison it tries to find out, how much is connected the relation of their basic themes with the relation between a dramatic text and a dramatic piece in general.
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ACTOR IN HIS OWN BODY
Legierski, Tomáš ; RIEDLBAUCHOVÁ, Veronika (advisor) ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (referee)
Legierski, Tomas. The actor in his own body. Prague: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, 2013. 74 pp.
In this work, Tomas Legierski is attempting to show that acting is an autonomous and creative artistic work that does not consist of the mere reproduction of directorial ideas. The main starting point, according to this author, begins with an actor's body, his physicality/corporeality. Each role or character that the actor tries to grasp, with the help of the director, is primarily based on the actor's "being" on stage, which implies a certain behavior. Whether the actor is static or in motion on the stage he is still acting. Legierski seeks to examine the resources and ways of action that comprise the total expression of an actor´s performance. At the inception of theatrical action is conceived a gesture that represents communication with itself, colleagues on stage and the audience. Gesture and movements are perceived by this author to be intertwined.
The core of this thesis is presented in three main chapters. In a chapter 1, Gesture in Actors, Legierski examines gesture as a movement and shape, its clarity and manner of its exercise. Chapter 2, Performing Being, describes the actor as a "total man", and examines the energy, dynamism and rhythm of the gesture which composes the essence of the actor´s existence on a stage. In chapter 3, Actor in a Composition, the author describes actors in specific theatrical situations where they make use of negotiation, revision and editing to create the composition stage. In these three chapters, the author identifies his inspiration for his graduate discipline of Pantomime while also describing how this technique and its protagonists have influenced his examination of the topic of a gesture.
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Idea of the Hero in Modern Theatre
Šulc, Ondřej ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; KLÍMA, Miloslav (referee)
In my diploma theses I tried to defend my ideal of hero in my production. From my theater work I chose my adaptations of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes, Bagpiper of Strakonice by Josef Kajetán Tyl, Secret of a rose based on the novels 1984 by George Orwell and Name of a rose by Umberto Eco, and my drama works reprezented by my adaptation of Icarus myth and drama based on the life of Jan Palach. For the purposes of my theses I used anthropological researches of Claude L?vi-Strauss and conclussions of David Lewis Williams.
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The Constitutive Features of Larps (Live action role-playing games)
Brychta, Lukáš ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; ČUNDERLE, Michal (referee)
The thesis aims to name the constitutive features of larps (live action role-playing games) and it is based on theatre theory and theory of games. The first chapter focuses on larp itself, sketches its historical background and shows few examples of larp. The second chapter describes some problems of basic aesthetic which will help us to understand some theoretical concepts later. The third chapter deals with the theory of games, tries to outline the specifics and and looks for similarities between a game and larp. The last chapter focuses on theatre theory, specifically touches upon theatre as artistic media. It also discusses questions of generally conceived performativity and looks for similar elements in theatre and larp. The conclusion is built from discovered facts and summarizes constitutive features of larps.
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Image and word
Neznal, Vít ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; CÍSAŘ, Jan (referee)
Vít Neznal's MA thesis called The Image and the Word deals with images and words as the two primary means of representation and elaborates on Neznal's bachelor thesis, in which he examined their articulation through the medium of theatre. The author first interprets the nature ? identity of image and representation with regards to general esthetic categories (mimesis, intentional object, simulacrum), and goes on to focus on their specific manifestations within individual artistic domains (painting, photography, film, theatre), basing his analysis on the framework of numerous theoretical concepts (structural-semiotic discourse, the "esthetics of the performative," the "ontological principle," etc.). The author then reflects on the word, while keeping his previous conclusions in mind, mainly within the context of theatre. His central theme is the identity of the image, or representation. This influenced his choice of examples. The analyzed works are mainly connected through an exploration of the limits of representation and through the thematization of their artistic language.
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Stage reconstruction of the Black masks
Burianová, Zuzana ; Etlík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Makonj, Karel (referee)
This Bachelor Thesis concerns the reconstruction of a Hradec Králové production of Black Masks. The main focal point is Leonid Andreyev´s biography and an attempt to capture events that could have influenced his dramatic work. My sources were mainly comprised of monographs published in English. Another focus of my research was outlining the social situation in the period after the Velvet Revolution and the related problems which the Klicpera Theatre was met with during the post-communist era. This part has been accomplished with the help of atricles from various Hradec journals, which documented any cultural and social changes in the region. During the reconstruction I used the only remaining contemporary materials ? black and white photographs of the productions, two reviews and the programme. Having gathered and processed all information available, I was able to recreate the image of the production, which had its Czechoslovak premiere on 5th May 1990. By doing this work, I also wanted to draw attention to the fact that since then, this play has not been staged again in this country.
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