Radio and audiobook acting : comparative analysis of two audio productions of The Master and Margarita

Tomáš Bojda

doi:10.5817/TY2024-1-8

Radio and audiobook acting : comparative analysis of two audio productions of The Master and Margarita

Vol.27,No.1(2024)

Tomáš Bojda

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2024-1-8

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80030

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Abstract

This study analyses the differences and commonalities of acting in traditional radio production and audiobooks. Using the examples of two adaptations of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, a radio dramatisation directed by Jiří Horčička (1987) and an audiobook by Natália Deáková (2021), it deals with the differences between the two audio treatments, noting the ways in which the literary subject is creatively concretised through the audio medium and the relationship between the literary text and its vocal interpretation. The aim of the study is to define the specificities and name the typical practices of actor-interpretation within radio and audiobook production. Methodologically, the analysis is based on the structural semiotics of acting, as proposed by Jiří Veltruský for the context of drama acting.

Keywords:
radio production; audiobook; radio acting; radio dramatisation; The Master and Margarita; Mikhail Bulgakov

Pages:
167–193

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