STUDIOVÉ DIVADLO NA MORAVĚ (SITUACE V 70. A 80. LETECH 20. STOLETÍ)
STUDIO THEATRE IN MORAVIA (THE SITUATION IN THE 1970S AND 1980S)

Summary/Abstract: This paper on the history of theatre deals with the special situation in the northern Moravia. After the death and destruction of small theatres of the 1960s (after 1968) there was not a single professional authorial and studio theatre there. The author of the paper, studying operational and artistic sides of these problems, records innovative theatrical activities. For the next twenty years these activities were possible only within the official statutory theatres. The absence of professional studio theatres, the endeavour of the actors and directors trying to escape from the staging stereotype as well as their requirement to join the progressive trends in the history of the Czech theatre – they all caused the alternative experiments within many theatres: in Ostrava (the work of Jan Kačer), in Olomouc (the fifteen-year period of Studio Forum), in Šumperk ( a small theatre Divadélko v klubu), in Opava ( chamber titles and the one-actor theatre). These activities were mostly theatrical alternatives (in the widest sense of the word) full of dramaturgic innovativeness, stage experiments with the nontraditional space and dramatic techniques, the interactive theatre together with provocative meaning interpretations.

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