The History of Czech Theatre 1

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Subject guarantor:

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Pavel BÁR, Jana CINDLEROVÁ, Jan CÍSAŘ, Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is a student familiarity with the role and development of theatre in modern Czech culture which allows them to create an idea of how make their own potential story in the contemporary story of Czech theatre; in other words; it is, in the perspective of their future professional activity, to help make the story of theatre a part of Czech modern culture of their own story.

- provide Drama Theatre Dept. acting, directing and dramaturgy students an image of the fundamental tendencies of theatre in the context of the story of Czech culture.

- provide a basic bearing in the covered tendencies, where in presentations, it is not only a historiographic process from one topic identical to the relevant historical period but a glimpse into the „overall“ development of Czech drama, more or less, in the discussion of each topic.

- presentation of individual tendencies of Czech drama theatre and its conflicts as open events where also as important as facts are the questions which arise from them.

- presentation and analysis of bases or subjects corresponding to various tendencies in Czech drama theatre.

Mode of study:

Lextue linked to pra proseminar.

A combination of instructor presentation with contributions by students , discussing those figures, respectively (in particuar direction/dramaturgy students) tendencies which are or may be interesting to them. Contributions come from independent study of selected and/or instructor recommended (from a fundamental perspective, supplementary) literature including commemorative books.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Successful completion of the 1 year of study.

Course contents:

This course represents and inovative version of the Proseminar in the History of Theatre in the Context of Czech Culture substantiated in AR 2016/2017, a refined version originating in documented experience. Topics are selected from the perspective of the (urgent) need of the Drama Theatre Dept. (and Czech Drama and dramatic acting), but are anchored in the perspective of a systematically developed concept. This concept and topics are based on long-term research performed by the participating instructors at the Institute of Set Design Theory. The interim results of that research are found in published results (se recommended literature).

Winter Semester Topics:

1. Theatre in the process of the formation of modern Czech culture

2. Revivalist theatre betwen mime and drama

3. V. K. Klicpera between enlightenment and comedy

4. J. K. Tyl and Czech theatre between Biedermeier and the unsuccessful revolution

5. The Prozatímní Theatre and Czech drama in the shadow of Czech opera.

6. Eliška Pešková, actor and wife and Czech theatre entrepreneurship

7. Sklenářová-Malá and the relationship of acting and drama.

8. From Kolár to Vrchlicky: the place of the rebirth of a world view?

9. Jindřich Mošna and Czech acting between clowning and dramatic action.

10.The National Theatre between representation and reality

11. The crisis of modernity and development from national theatre to the artistic

Recommended or required reading:

Recommended:

Císař, J. Přehled dějin českého divadla, Praha 2006, 2009

Jindřich Vodák k historii českého divadla (antologie studijních textů, eds. Vostrý / Sílová), Praha 2017

Vostrý, J. / Sílová, Z. České drama a český hrdina, Praha 2017 ( v tisku)

Winter semester:

Plays: Klicpera: Veselohra na mostě, Rohovín čtverrohý, Hadrián z Římsů, Divotvorný klobouk; Tyl: Krvavé křtiny, Strakonický dudák, Tvrdohlavá žena, Paličova dcera; Vrchlický: Noc na Karlštejně, Hippodamie; Zeyer: Radúz a Mahulena; Stroupežnický: Naši furianti; Preissová: Gazdina roba, Její pastorkyňa; Mrštíci: Maryša; Jirásek: Vojnarka, Otec, Jan Hus, Lucerna; Dyk: Zmoudření Dona Quijota; Mahen: Janošík, Mrtvé moře

Monographs and articles:

Macura, V. „Paradox obrozenského divadla“, in Divadlo v české kultuře 19. století, Praha 1985: 36–43

Stich, A. „Český jazyk a dramatický text v 19. století“, in Divadlo v české kultuře 19. století, Praha 1985: 75–85, přetištěno in Stich, A. Od Karla Havlíčka k Františku Halasovi, Praha 1996: 101–116

Honzl, J. „Hadrián z Římsů na moderním jevišti“, in (týž) K novému významu umění, Praha 1956: 142–144 b. Josef Kajetán Tyl 1808–1856–2006–2008, Praha 2007

Chválová, L. Žena v divadle Josefa Kajetána Tyla, Praha 2012

Fischer, O. „Činohra v pražských divadlech: Prozatímním, Národním, Městském“, in Československá vlastivěda, VIII. sv. (Umění), Praha 1935: 357–384 (kap. „Prozatímní divadlo, 1862–1883); 385–421 (Národní divadlo za Šuberta, 1883–1900; Dvacáté století: Prvé desetiletí; Druhé desetiletí)

Sílová, Z. Komedianti na české scéně. Od divadla k filmu, Praha 2013:9–40 (Od živelné komiky k charakteru.Od Svobody k Mošnovi)

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading based on the submitted course paper on a selected topic

Course web page:

Note:

The selected instructor approach is enabled by the concept of the history of Czech theatre as a conflict of tendencies whose form, in the context of the societal and cultural development, changes but which according to the wise judgement of the great Czech art historian Max Dvořák, is never completely lost, „Everything art has created in the historically transparent and related to cultural periods, has never been lost, rather is immanently found in the contents of the whole later development and always repeatedly receives new significance. This applies to individual to motifs and general directions and treatments.“ This is, otherwise, given in the consideration of culture itself of which theatre is a multi-level part. It functions in the as well, not only as art but also as a state sponsored institution and sometimes predominantly for entertainment purposes and as a entreprenurial subject. In its internal structure (and from a certain central perspective, a view and stimulus of the corresponding social and individual (self)staging. From this perspective, it represents a distinctive and important medium, linked particularly through acting and other media creating a stage culture as a fundamentally important field and level of the function of the contemporary society.

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
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Fri	room S202 Zasedací místnost (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 11:00–12:30 (přednášková par. 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	11:00–12:30		Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (required subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)
• Stage Design (B.A.) (required subject)