The History of Czech Theatre 2

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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 topi,

- 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 exam based on the course paper on an assigned topic.

Course contents:

This course represents an innovative version of the History of Theatre in a Czech Culture Context Proseminar, verified in AR2016/17; the refined version has arisen from experience. Topics are selected from the perspective (emergent) need of the Drama Theatre Dept. (and from Czech Drama and drama theatre), but is rooted in a series from a perspective of a consistently developed concept. This concept and topics are based on many years of research completed by the participating instructors at the institute of Stage Design; the interim results of that research are published (see recommended literature).

Summer semester topics AR 2017/18

13. Zavřel's initiative and Hilar's vinohradský revolution /Cindlerová/

14. The great actor in modern theatre: From Vojana to Štěpánek /Sílová/

15. Theatre in democracy from a great vision of pragmatism and from heroism to man? /Cindlerová/

16. Karel Čapek and Czech theatre /Cindlerová/

17. From free theatre to the arranged: avant garde between poetry and politics /Cindlerová/

18. 1945–1948: Czech theatre revolution and its end /Vostrý/

19. The acting generation of 1945 and its fate /Sílová/

20. Czech theatre and the fate of Alfred Radok /Císař/

21. Krejča's road from Frejka's Vinohrady through The National Theatre to Divadlo za branou /Sílová/

22. Great theatre in small spaces: Divadlo Na zábradlí and Činoherní klub /Císař/

23. From Reduta to studo thatre from the 1960s to normalization and contemporary alternative /Cindlerová/

24. From operetta to musical: Theatre as entertainment, or /i/ art /Bár/

25. Czech theatre in the media era /Vostrý/

26. Who is the king of contemporary Czech drama theatre (acting, directing, set design, audience, fashionable trends)? /Vostrý/

Recommended or required reading:

Summer Semester Literature:

Plays: Dyk, Zmoudření dona Quijota; Šrámek, Měsíc nad řekou; Mahen, Mrtvé moře / Janošík; Langer, Periferie a Jízdní hlídka; Čapek, Bílá nemoc a Matka; Topol, Konec masopustu; and others according to one's considerations

Monographs and articles:

Císař, J. Přehled dějin českého divadla, Praha 2006 [přísl. kapitoly z 2. vyd. v jednom svazku]

Fischer, O. „Činohra v pražských divadlech: Prozatímním, Národním, Městském“, in Československá vlastivěda, VIII. sv. (Umění), Praha 1935: 408–432 (Dvacáté století: Prvé desetiletí; Druhé desetiletí, Po roce 1920)

Götz, F. Boj o český divadelní sloh, Praha 1934

Hyvnar, J. O českém dramatickém herectví 20. století, Praha 2008

Sílová, Z. Komedianti na české scéně. Od divadla k filmu, Praha 2013: 45–54 (Hübnerová) a 55–64 (Zakopal); 109–174 (kap. věnované Vlastovi Burianovi, V+W a Hugo Haasovi)

Kraus, K. Divadlo ve službách dramatu, Praha 2001: 197–298 [texty věnované O. Krejčovi]

Vostrý, J. Zdeněk Štěpánek (Herec a dějiny), Praha 1997: 78–275

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

Bár, P. Od operety k muzikálu (Zábavněhudební divadlo v Československu po roce1945), Praha 2013 sb. Sláva a bída herectví, Praha 2013,

Sílová, Z. (ed.) Generace a kontinuita, Praha 2009

Sílová, Z. DISK a generace 1945, Praha 2006

Sílová, Z. Radovan Lukavský, Praha 1999

Sílová, Z. / Bár, P. Frejkovy Schovávané na schodech, Praha 2014

Sílová, Z. / Vostrý, J. Městská divadla pražská v éře Oty Ornesta, Praha 2014

Vostrý, J. Činoherní klub 1965–1972 (Dramaturgie v praxi), Praha 1996, event. Petr Čepek (Talent a osud), Praha 1996 n. 2004

Vostrý, J. / Sílová, Z. / Bár, P. Divadelním ředitelem 1945–1950 (Jiří Frejka na Vinohradech), Praha 2016

Memoirs: Kohout, Divadlo aneb Snář, or possibly. Scheinpflugová, Byla jsem na světě, or Pešek Tvář bez masky, or others according to one's selection and/or instructor's recommendation.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Oral exam on the presented course paper on an assigned 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:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
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

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)