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Contemporary British climate change plays
Holá, Kateřina ; JOBERTOVÁ, Daniela (advisor) ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (referee)
This master thesis deals with one of the current trends in contemporary British drama – the so-called „climate change plays“.
In the first part of this thesis my aim is to briefly introduce the history and context of climate change debate from the 1970s to the present day and explain how environmental problems started to arise in different art spheres, above all in Anglophone literature. In the second part the focus is on the climate change plays that emerged in English speaking countries in the past 15 years. The core of this thesis are analyses of four plays premiered in major London theatres between 2009 – 2011: The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters, The Heretic by Richard Bean, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London and Lungs by Duncan Macmillan. The main objective of these analyses is their approach towards climate change science and their shared ideologies, motives and themes.
The last chapter attempts to evaluate this social phenomenon and to consider the difficulties artists have to face when dealing with such complex scientific problems like climate change.
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Characteristics of David Drábek's directorial style by examples of his three Shakespearean productions
Šafářová, Tereza ; SCHLEGELOVÁ, Martina (advisor) ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on characterization of some distinctive features of a directorial style of David Drábek, who is a Czech playwright, a dramaturgist and a theatre director. The topic is examined by examples of his three productions of William Shakespeare’s plays Macbeth, Richard III. and Romeo and Juliet. He directed them in the Klicpera’s theatre in Hradec Králové, the last two mentioned as an Artistic director of the local ensemble. Introductory part of the thesis contains brief Drábek’s biography and his contribution to the Czech theatre world as a playwright and a director. It will be followed by an analysis and an interpretation of individual components of the three productions. The final part of the thesis is a summary of major features of the analyzed productions and you will also find a resume of the whole thesis there. At the end of the thesis there are two attachments. The first one includes a list of all productions Drábek directed in the Klicpera’s theatre. The second contains selected photos from the three chosen productions.
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From Entertainment to Tragedy: Changes of Alfred de Musset’s dramatic proverb
Kosáková, Tereza ; JOBERTOVÁ, Daniela (advisor) ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (referee)
Bachelor thesis called From Entertainment to Tragedy: Changes of Alfred de Musset’s dramatic proverb tracks Alfred de Musset’s creative line of dramatic proverbs. It incorporates his plays not only into an artistic movement and socio- political situation of the author's era, but also into a wider context of proverb's development since the salon improvisations in the seventeenth century. On the background of this tradition the author of this bachelor thesis closely analyzes Musset’s dramatic works and detaches the play No Trifling with Love which carries both characteristic features of the proverb genre and of romantic tendencies of that time. Combining the inductive method and her own interpretation, the author names the main themes and qualities of play and proves its scenic potential through domestic staging and translation interest. In conclusion she also points out further possibilities of dramatic proverb research which penetrate into other European cultures.
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The Development of Slovak drama theatre since 1920s till 1970s and its interaction with Czech theatre
Kyselová, Eva ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; CÍSAŘ, Jan (referee)
Following dissertation thesis study the influence of Czech theatre on developement of Slovak classic drama theatre during approximately from the twenties to seventies of 20th century. The purpose of the thesis is to identify the possible impact of Czech theatre on development of Slovak theatre culture in common state system regarding the similarity of both nations and cultures. The thesis are divided into two parts. First part defines chosen methodology. It presents the concept of literature comparatistics and its possibilites regarding application on theatrological research, it explains basic terms of comparatistics, the context of origin of Czech and Slovak nation regarding the idea of national theatre and it sets its own periodization In second part the comparative analysis is applied on particular historic source, it analyzes each period using examples from work of Slovak directors in particular historic-political context while comparing it to the state of Czech theatre. These chapters use tools of comparative analysis ? typological connections or genetic and contact relations of both theatre cultures. The main purpose of the thesis is to emphasize the fact, that despite the common historic and political context and significant language and cultural similarity, there are two individual theatre cultures developing since 1920 that are engaged in a continual creative but mostly varying dialogue.
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Metamorphoses of Phaedra´s Confession of Love
Křápková, Lucie ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; JOBERTOVÁ, Daniela (referee)
This Bachelor thesis looks into changes of dramatical rendition of the myth about Phaedra in terms of her confession of love. It compares four
dramatical texts: tragedy Hippolytus by the greek playwright Euripides, play Phaedra by roman dramatist L. A. Seneca, tragedy Phedre by Jean Racine and Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love. It determines changes of the relations and motives of the main characters projected into Phaedra's confession. It pays attention mostly to the analysis of the texts themselves but at the same time it does not turn from the main characteristic of these four dramatists, nor social context of creation of these plays.
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The Development of Economic and Legislative Conditions of Dramatic Writing in Victorian London
Veselá, Zuzana ; SVOBODOVÁ, Doubravka (advisor) ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (referee)
This bachelor's thesis offers an overview of the economic and legal conditions of playwrights in Victorian London - that is from 1837 to 1901. The thesis focuses on the changes and development of the form and height of authorial remuneration in both West End and East End theatres and the gradual progress of esp. copyright legislation in the United Kingdom. The thesis also describes the nature and workings of censorship as well as the possibility of publishing plays. The thesis is structured into three chapters. The first chapter analyses chiefly the economic notions of the period, the second deals with the legal aspects of the profession with focus on copyright and censorship and the third consists of a case study of playwright Oscar Wilde. I use his example to demonstrate the principles described in the previous two chapters as well as show the gradual development of the status of his profession. The aim of this work is to offer a brief comprehensive overview of the Victorian London theatre scene from the point of view of the playwright.
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Waiting for Godot with Cat on the Rails (Formal and Thematic Overlaps of the Samuel Beckett's Play in the Play by Josef Topol)
Kykalová, Kateřina ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; MUSILOVÁ, Martina (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the formal and thematic overlaps of the Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in the play Cat on the Rails by Josef Topol. Through a comparison of both texts the work finds similarities and differences in their genres, composition, dialogue, language, time and space, layout and characteristics of the characters, theme and individual motives. An initial impetus for its creation was an identification of the same basic situation of waiting in both plays and a theme of rootlessness of human existence, which speaks through the two central couples which always complement each other by their contrasting temperaments. Gradually, however, the work finds also a fundamental difference of the texts, namely the location of dramatic conflict, which divides Évi and Véna in Cat on the Rails while in Waiting for Godot it stands between the two vagrants and a bleak human destiny.
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Frank Wedekind's play Spring awakening at Czech stages
Macáková, Karolína ; AUGUSTOVÁ, Zuzana (advisor) ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the work of the German playwright Frank Wedekind, especially with his second play called Frühlings Erwachen (Spring awakening). It also makes a short excursion into the history of Czech performances of this play. Using the recordings of two latest Czech productions - in Disk Theatre (2007) and in Theatre Komorní scéna Aréna (2008) it also analysis these two newest productions.
The bachelor thesis also mentions a historical context of Frank Wedekind's work and themes included in his other plays - Lulu (Lulu), Die junge Welt (The young world) and Franziska (Franziska). It also attemps to find typical themes of this playwright and their possibilities on stage of the contemporary theatre.
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