Title:
Crisis? Czech theatre after 1989
Author(s):
Kunderová, Radka
Year of publication:
2021
Available Date:
2022-01-05T12:29:47Z
Abstract:
The article reevaluates the prevailing historiographical narrative about a crisis of Czech theatre after 1989 and argues that the situation in Czech theatre did not change as dramatically in the early 1990s as commonly assumed. Drawing on analysis of the theatre press of the time, the author discusses the 1990s debates on redefining (social) function of theatre. Using writings of the critic Václav Königsmark as a case study, the author reveals a so-far hidden continuity between the post-1989 Czech thinking on theatre and the Prague School structuralist theory, Jan Mukařovský's concept of the aesthetic function in particular.
Part of Identifier:
ISBN (print): 9780367266103
Keywords:
theatre crisis
social function of theatre
1989
post-1989 transformation
Czech theatre
Prague school
Jan Mukařovský
aesthetic function
Václav Königsmark
DDC-Classification:
790 Recreational and performing arts
Publication Type:
Buchkapitel
URL of the Original Publication:
Book Title:
Theatre Institutions in Crisis : European Perspectives
Editor:
Christopher Balme & Tony Fisher
Department/institution:
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft