https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/issue/feed 2025-05-19T12:25:00+02:00 Theatralia theatralia@phil.muni.cz Open Journal Systems <!--<article class="box-article-list"> <p class="box-article-list__img"><img src="https://journals.phil.muni.cz/public/site/images/admin/test-obrazek2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="300" /></p> <div class="box-article-list__content"> <h2 class="box-article-list__title">Theatralia 1/2023</h2> <p class="box-article__desc"><span class="h3">The Roaring Twenties: Theatre of Early 2020s</span><br /><br />This issue of Theatralia explores the specificity of The Roaring 2020s' theatre and performance. It reflects on as well as contextualises contemporary theatre/performance practice, which has been significantly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, as well as by recent/current global conflicts and their consequences. In addition, this issue focuses on our 2020s knowledge of historical periods, namely of the historical avant-garde (including the original roaring 1920s), and their works of art.</p> </div> </article>--> https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40942 2025-05-19T12:24:51+02:00 Šárka Havlíčková Kysová email@journals.phil.muni.cz Svitlana Shurma email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40943 2025-05-19T12:24:51+02:00 Scott C. Knowles email@journals.phil.muni.cz

Utilising emotion science on disgust and the interconnection between emotion and cognition this essay analyses Kane's Blasted to articulate not only how the play makes us feel through an application of the evolutionary basis for disgust, but how this experience is meant to communicate the morality of the play's world through the cognitive structures of embodied schemata. The operation of experiential theatre is expanded through an understanding of enactivism, an integral part of 4E cognition, as it applies to the emotion of disgust. Identifying and analysing the embodied schemata of boundaries, contamination, animality, and balance the essay develops how Blasted relies on the most evolutionarily advanced form of disgust, 'moralisation', to understand how the embodied experience of theatre creates meaning. Kane's shocking and disgusting theatre is thus understood to go beyond feeling. It can help us understand how viscerally reactive moments in the theatre impinge on how an audience/reader learn and adopt moral views.

2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40944 2025-05-19T12:24:52+02:00 Martina Musilová email@journals.phil.muni.cz

The improvising actor may experience a range of feelings that may not relate to the content of their improvisation or the themes that emerge during the improvisation. Some of these feelings are even considered negative, yet they can be a positive and activating impetus for the development of play. Using the example of a specific variant of acting improvisation, which is practised from 'point zero', the article demonstrates the influence that these feelings have on inducing the creative state of the actor. For my analysis, I will make use of, among other sources, students' written reflections of the practice of the psychosomatic discipline of Dialogical Acting with the Inner Partner, which was founded by Czech actor, director, psychologist, and acting teacher Ivan Vyskočil. I will primarily focus on the feelings of embarrassment, awkwardness, boredom, amazement, wonder, and joy in play.

2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40945 2025-05-19T12:24:54+02:00 Aaron Taylor email@journals.phil.muni.cz Douglas MacArthur email@journals.phil.muni.cz Javid Sadr email@journals.phil.muni.cz

Regarding acting and its training as a situated activity, best apprehended through an ecological, embodied focus on mutually constitutive interactions between the actor's mind, body, and performance environment, in this work we formally examine the development of undergraduate actors' performative skills – and requisite mental and physical resources – within an undergraduate pedagogical training program in screen acting. In meeting the actor's basic responsibility – the achievement of performative reality effects – successful actors must concretely demonstrate several core competencies based on situation-specific, task-oriented activities – demonstrable skills amenable to practical instruction and assessment within the classroom as well as to theoretical scrutiny from a pragmatic psychological perspective. Our interdisciplinary research program details the instruction and acquisition of a core set of aptitudes essential to the screen actor's successful engagement with the constraints and opportunities of a demanding, medium-specific production environment.

2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40946 2025-05-19T12:24:55+02:00 Michaela Mojžišová email@journals.phil.muni.cz

Contemporary theatrical work often reflects the artists' sceptical view of the relationship between man and the world, or the frustration of the individual existing amidst negative forces outside and within himself, against which he cannot effectively define himself or escape. The present text, using a selected sample of works from Slovak and Czech operas of the 21st century, explores the means based on the poetics of absurd and post-dramatic theatre, which authors use to convey a sense of meaninglessness, banality, and the hopelessness of life, and/or use them in the sense of persiflage, caricature, or nonsense. The author of the study identifies them in the sense of expressing the creators' attitude to the state of society, also in the musical-dramaturgical structure of individual opuses. She also examines them in the relation of the creators to opera as a music-dramatic art, which is, on the one hand, connected with the past, but on the other hand, is created and reciprocated in the current time.

2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40947 2025-05-19T12:24:57+02:00 Tyrone Grima email@journals.phil.muni.cz Christopher Vella email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This practice-as-research project explores the life and the writings of the only Maltese saint, Father George Preca, from a homoerotic perspective. By using hermeneutics of suspicion and hermeneutics of reclamation, the researchers of this project question and investigate the latent queer aspects of the spirituality of this saint, juxtaposing them against the wider context of queer Catholic spirituality. These insights gave birth to the writing of an original script in Maltese called Iddi Dun Ġorġ (Let Your Light Shine on Us, Father George). This paper analyses the theoretical framework that has influenced the artistic project. Among other things, it focuses on the writing of the script, as well as the feedback provided by a focus group which led to the development of the second draft.

2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40948 2025-05-19T12:24:58+02:00 Šárka Havlíčková Kysová email@journals.phil.muni.cz Rhonda Blair email@journals.phil.muni.cz Amy Cook email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2025 Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Rhonda Blair, Amy Cook https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40949 2025-05-19T12:24:58+02:00 Svitlana Shurma email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2025 Svitlana Shurma https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40950 2025-05-19T12:24:59+02:00 Marie Adamová email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2025 Marie Adamová https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40951 2025-05-19T12:24:59+02:00 David Drozd email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2025 David Drozd https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40952 2025-05-19T12:24:59+02:00 Eliška Halodová email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2025-04-15T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2025 Eliška Halodová https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40953 2025-05-19T12:25:00+02:00 Journal Theatralia email@journals.phil.muni.cz

For nearly 60 years, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space has been the world’s largest exhibition and festival dedicated to scenography, performance design, and performance space. Since its founding in 1967, PQ has continuously evolved, navigating political and cultural shifts while remaining a vital space for scenographic experimentation and innovation. Taking place every four years without interruption, it has grown into a global meeting ground for performance designers, artists, scholars, and students, fostering interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange across artistic and cultural differences. [...]

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