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Asian Inspirations in the Works of Jiří Frejka over Time
Burešová, Denisa ; Pšenička, Martin (advisor) ; Just, Vladimír (referee)
Traditional Asian theatre genres have fascinated western audiences since the end of the 19th century. In my thesis, I focused on the means by which Jiří Frejka, a leading representative of Czech avant- garde theatre, dealt with that trend. Through Japanese, Chinese and Indian texts, he verifies new possibilities of all elements of theatre production - the stage, music and, primarily, the actor and his voice and movement. Thanks to prompt books, photographs, reviews and other materials from Frejka's estate stored in the National Museum, the archive of the National Theatre and the Moravian Museum in Brno, I assess these individual elements of theatre production in connection with traditional Asian genres and I seek mutual parallels, sources of inspiration and, primarily, the manner in which Frejka adapted them to his own directorial work. The objective of this work is to confirm the previous thesis that, in the case of Jiří Frejka, deeper study of the topic led to a fundamental shift in the manner of bringing these "foreign" sources of inspiration into the Czech environment, which moved away from a merely decorative function toward an internally linked and well-founded method. Key words Czech theatre avant-garde, Asagao, Modern Studio, Lady Precious Stream, Shakuntala, The Post Office
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Havel and Brynda's play Life Ahead and her adaptation at the Sklep (Cellar) Theatre
Burešová, Denisa ; Topolová, Barbara (advisor) ; Sarkissian, Alena (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to find all available information about the circumstances of the creation of Havel's and Brynda's play Život před sebou (Life Ahead) from 1958 as well as about its staging in context of military creativity. A further aim is to compare the original manuscript with the textual adaptation by Jiří Fero burda, Jan Slovák and David Vávra called Mlýny (The Mills), which focuses mainly on the method of reversing the polarity of the meanings of the plays' thematic plan. The main part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis of the most famous production of theatre Sklep, Mlýny, first staged on March 9, 1991 and played by the same actors until today. Drawing from the secondary literature, this thesis also presents information about the birth of Divadlo Sklep and other ensembles of the Prague Five and their main artistic techniques in the context of Czech theatre during the normalisation period, exploring also the fundamental change which came after 1989. The main material for the analysis of the staging was, besides the newspaper reviews and recordings of the performances, mainly my own viewer's experience and an interview with the authors themselves.
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