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Savremene konotacije antičke teatrologije
Contemporary connotations of ancient theatrology

Author(s): Srđan Vukadinović
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Matica Hrvatska Tuzla
Keywords: Theatrology;antique;modernity;Aeneid;Odyssey;Iliad;Gilgamesh

Summary/Abstract: Many ancient texts, regardless of whether they have a dramatic form or need to customize the scene, contain a number of current connotations, which allow emergency communication past and the present, recognizing the solvability of problems and misfortunes that have mind and purposefulness resolved over time. Sometimes less, while other times the more painful way. Whether it comes to war poems or not, exalting patriarchy or not, ancient texts are structured life and artistic connotative printed so that the containment completely irrelevant or less important. More important messages are engaged and striving to win well and what constitutes a being human, community and society. Very little theater workers in the first decades of the third millennium grapples with ancient texts and scenic shapes them. The complexity of the structure of said texts even more raises the level of accountability protagonists of the theatrical act in their final stage starting point. Perfect is still in the understanding of these texts stratification whether it comes to works produced in Front-Greek or Greek and Roman antiquity. Scene formulate such an act and give it the connotation contours of modern life and society events can only afford a top theater connoisseurs. This situation is further complicated by the fact if the theater protagonists who are acting as agents only at the beginning of his career. Something like that treated the Tuzla Cabaret Theater, which is a specific period of four years (2011-2015), at its own stage by a kind of ancient tetralogy consisting of works: “Aeneid”, “Odyssey,” “ Iliad” and “Gilgamesh” . Through the aforementioned stage tetralogy shown all the specificity and universality of the ancient epics. The value of this universal idea and the message which has established a specific system of values, which is a couple of tens of centuries has served its verification and viability. It shows that a value system that has been established on real and superior aesthetic and social diversity can not collapse nor destroy any historical and social movements which even had intended that to be done. Stage tetralogy shows that ancient epics are helping to realize and understand the society of today. And in the works of the “Aeneid”, “Odyssey”, “Iliad” and “Gilgamesh” intertwine dichotomies: past - present EP - technology, friendship - virtualization and life - death.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 11-20
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian