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Freezing Fresh Fruit
Havelka, Jiří ; Schmid, Jan (advisor) ; Etlík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Mikeš, Vladimír (referee) ; Hořínek, Zdeněk (referee)
My doctoral thesis is actually divided into three parts. In the first one called The Theatre Context I am trying to prove the exclusivity of this living art form among other artistic forms. I am looking for new essential reasons to vindicate validity of theatre work in the age of electronic medias and virtual reality. On the base of a playfulness I examine the border between the real reality and the theatre one. I focus on the audience?s point of view, on their ability for active imagination ? the basic element creating the theatre performance.
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Performance
Šefrnová, Tereza ; Císař, Jan (advisor) ; Etlík, Jaroslav (referee)
In my MA thesis entitled Performance: Selected issues of performance studies and an outline of the current state performance in the Czech Republic, I focus on the phenomenon of performance, which is often a topic of heated debate in theater studies and humanities in general. It is a topic that is controversial, relevant and still open. In the first part, I try to brig the topic into context and to outline a possible classification of performance. In the second part, I will try to answer the following three questions relating to performance studies: 1. To what extent are performance and experiment simile? 2. Why did Barba opt for this particular type of cultural exchange and what does it mean in context? 3. What is the importance of the idealisation of normative identity to the study of performance? In the third section, I will try to use structured and semistructured interviews with artists to provide an outline of the current state of performance in the Czech Republic.
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Theatrical Movie Adaptation.
Balzerová, Adéla ; Etlík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Tichý, Zdeněk (referee)
This text is dealing with the phenomenon that could be described as one of the major tendencies in the contemporary Czech theatrical dramaturgy, the theatrical movie adaptations on the Czech stages. It focuses on the approach of the theater artists to the given original movies, specifically on the way the directors are handling the specifics of the film and the theatre language. This thesis uses the example of the selected theatrical productions in relation to the original movies to show the approaches that can prove to be successful and functional within the theatre language, the approaches than cannot and to emphasize the fact that the very selection of the original movie can be finally difficult to adapt. This thesis uses the various staging approaches to draw some general conclusions that might be useful to theater artists who want to address this issue in practice.
Keywords: Theatrical movie adaptation. Theatrical adaptation. Theatrical and cinematic language.
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Image and Word, Especially in the Theatre
Neznal, Vít ; Etlík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Císař, Jan (referee)
?Image and Word, Especially in the Theatre", a bachelor´s thesis, addresses the phenomenon of image and word as fundamental constitutive components of a theatre performance. At the same time, the author considers and interprets their fundamental role in the arts in general. Taking as a basis the theory of semiotic and structural studies, the author attempts a confrontation with hermeneutics. The goal of the work is to define image and word not only from the point of view of noetic theather, which aspires to expression through symbols, but mainly to point out their tendency to be realized within the framework of the ontological principal of the theatrical arts. Although image and word are going through a significant transformation process within the arts, the author tries to prove that the theater, due to its performative character, can omit neither image nor word. The author uses as a primary basis the perception of image and word in their processuality stemming from the nature of temporality in theatrical arts.
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Theatre on the road, audience in movement.
Malá, Zuzana ; Císař, Jan (advisor) ; Etlík, Jaroslav (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis "Theatre on the Road, Audience in Movement", is to open up the topic of theatre projects that use walking spectators and work with phenomenon of being on a road. The ambition is not to give a full overview on the subject. I am focusing on such performances´ social point and their specific qualities and meanings. I am interested in performance as an event placed in concrete time and concrete location, having also meaningful paratheatrical aspects. I am trying to use my practical experience as much as possible - both as spectator and active participant. In three chapters I talk mainly about spectator's activity and activation; about forms of manipulation in theatre and about theatrical space and space relationships. In each partial topic I am trying to find what is special and distinctive for the "theatre on the road". The central point of the thesis is a spectator set in a situation.
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Geisslers Hofcomoedianten - The Baroque Theater Principles and Their Implemations in the Contemporary Theater
Hašek, Petr ; Mikeš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Etlík, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis, attempting to aim the baroque theatre principles, is divided into four chapters. The first one deals with the baroque era in history generally: its social and political situation, the way of baroque thinking and mainly with the basic elements of baroque art and theatre. The second part emphasizes the personality of Count of Sporck, the great art patron whose support flourished in creating a remarkable spa complex Kuks in Eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic). The third one covers the baroque spiritual and artistic influence for the presence - the Theatrum Kuks festival and the Kuks theatre company Geisslers Hofcomoedianten. Its dramaturgy is exclusively oriented to and inspired by forgotten and newly discovered baroque texts. The thesis describes in details their way of understanding and presenting those texts on stage during their seven year existence (2002-2008). There are almost all the basic forms and genres of baroque theatre (opera, Hauptaktion, school drama, commedia dell´arte, comic intermezzo etc.). The fourth section (Appendix) presents the texts (and/or translations) to each of the analyzed Geisslers Hofcomoedianten performances.
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Jan the Phenomenon Tleskač
Balzerová, Adéla ; Šavlíková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Etlík, Jaroslav (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis entitled Jan the Phenomenon Tleskač describes the conception of Jan Tleskač production from a dramaturgic point of view. The production was created within the Prague Quadrennial 2007 as one of the projects on the topic Reach the Heaven. The entire project concentrated mainly on its artistic part. The well known story of Jan Tleskač - the boy that invented a flying bicycle - is based on the book Mystery of a Brainteaser by Jaroslav Foglar. In our production we only concentrated on the story of Jan Tleskač and thus we created an original story.
We added some new characters into the story - three fitter's shop apprentices, a St. James's church nun and we kept a very important character of Tleskač's master Em. The baseline of the well known story was thus enriched by those new characters putting the story in a different light than the one we know from Foglar's stories.
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The evolution of main protagonists of Vaclav Havel's dramatic works
Kubák, Ivo Kristián ; Etlík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Císař, Jan (referee)
The thesis aims to describe the development of main characters featured in the most important plays of Václav Havel from the 1963-1985 period (Garden Party, The Memorandum, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Audience, Unveiling, Protest, Largo Desolato and Temptation). The introduction accurately defines the focus of this work as well as the methodology used, which is based on literary and dramatic analysis. Considering the fact that no clear definition of the term "main character" exists, the introduction also describes a method of his/her selection. Each section dedicated to a specific play first elaborates on the story of the play's main character, and continues with the detailed analysis of the main dramatic character as a fictional literary subject. Summarizing the conducted research, the thesis concludes with a statement that the development of the characters is a continuous process - not just absorptive, but rather gradually ontogenetic.
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