Theatralia
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia
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Masarykova univerzita
cs-CZ
Theatralia
1803-845X
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Brutalism, Sarah Kane, and the long nineties reconsidered : editorial
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42553
Dorota Sosnowska
David Drozd
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Craving for the West: in-yer-face theatre in the land of the Vistula
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42554
In the article, the authors use Rebecca Schneider's archival methodology and analyse two performances – Krzysztof Warlikowski's Cleansed and Grzegorz Jarzyna's 4.48 Psychosis. Based on theatre reviews and popular magazines, they place these productions in the context of Poland's post-transition aspiration to belong to the Western world. Sociologist Jadwiga Staniszkis described these tendencies as a tension between globalisation and adherence to tradition. Articles in women's magazines show a fascination with the figures of both directors, who have enjoyed international success, while critics' opinions are divided between those praising the adaptations of Kane's works for renewing the Polish theatre language and those criticising them for their controversial use of nudity. The anti-capitalist and anti-identity message of the writer's work has thus become an expression of Polish liberalcapitalist aspirations based on the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights and on how to achieve commercial success in the West.
Anna Cybulska
Zuzanna Kluszczyńska
Zofia Kryspin
Adrianna Łakomiak
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Brutalist theatrical procedures of Sarah Kane, Anja Hilling, Simona Semenič, and Milena Marković
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42555
The essay examines three cases of brutalist procedures in contemporary theatre and drama, focusing on artists' inventive responses to war, violence, and subsequent deaths happening around the world. Sarah Kane's in-yer-face theatre, marked by hypertrophied violence and symbolic dynamism, is compared with selected plays by German playwright Anja Hilling (Black Beast Sorrow), Slovene playwright and dramaturge Simona Semenič (the feast; we, the european corpses), and Serbian poet and playwright Milena Marković (Pavilions; The Doll Ship). The essay explores how these artists challenge theatrical representation and create, through heterogeneous textual and visual strategies, a 'theatre of unbelief' (Deleuze), reframing Kane's brutalism for post-socialist European contexts.
Tomaž Toporišič
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Affective orientation in Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/40047
This article explores the affective resonance of Sara Kane's 4.48 Psychosis and its sociopolitical implications. Through the works of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant it proposes a theoretical framework that focuses on affective objects and how they shape the affective orientation of the text. It also studies the figure of the affect alien and the notion of impasse to analyse how they define the affective environment of the play. Finally, the corporeality of affect is taken into account to better understand how Kane's text connects with the reader, affectively orienting them alongside its protagonist in order to reinforce the critique guided by the narrative voice.
Álvar Menéndez Cámara
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10.5817/TY2025-2-4
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Silent reading as a latent performance through the lens of Ivan Vyskočil's concept of inner dialogical tripolarity
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42556
Although silent reading is typically regarded as a solitary and non-performative act, this article challenges that assumption by arguing for its latent performative nature. I focus on silent reading as a (at least latent) performance through the lens of Ivan Vyskočil's concepts of 'dialogical acting with the inner partner' and 'inner tripolarity' in the situation of open dramatic play. This concept, which has not received much attention in academic circles and remains marginalised, is addressed in this study.
Vít Zeman
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10.5817/TY2025-2-5
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Libreta z doby před rokem 1800 v knihovně zámku Český Krumlov
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42557
Studie pojednává o sbírce libret z doby před rokem 1800 v knihovně zámku Český Krumlov. Ze zdejší kolekce o rozsahu asi 300 libret se vyčleňují tři poměrně koherentní provenienční celky – italská libreta 17. století s těžištěm v benátské produkci z let 1671–1698, libreta oper a oratorií z okruhu dvora císaře Leopolda I. a vídeňská libreta z 2. poloviny 18. století. Vedle stručné charakteristiky každého zmiňovaného celku je připojeno několik sond stopujících cesty, jimiž se konkrétní tituly do knihovny mohly dostat, přičemž je sledována zejména souvislost s osobními zájmy majitelů panství. Pozornost je věnována také návaznosti libret na českokrumlovské hudebniny, ať již reálně dochované (zejména kolekce eggenberských partitur z konce 17. století) nebo zaznamenané v dobových inventářích. Studie je příspěvkem k otázce šíření hudebních teatrálií v 17. a 18. století.
Jana Spáčilová
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'Death is always the present-future' : on Sudden Death in Opera
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42558
Šárka Havlíčková Kysová
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"Tato olbřímí slovníková publikace": autoritativní zdroj k českému modernímu divadlu
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42559
Tomáš Kačer
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Shock therapy
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42560
Naďa Satková
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The Hungarian reception of Sarah Kane's play Cleansed
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/theatralia/article/view/42561
Eszter Kovács
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