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Edition Czech Theatre Ridiculous loves and dislikes of playwright Viktor Dyk This book study by Prof. Janoušek looks at the changes and constants of Dyk’s poetics. It is based on the fact that most of the plays written by the author are completely unknown to today’s potential readers and stagers, and therefore it wants to bring them closer to the strangeness, even bizarreness, of the way Dyk named life and the world. The key to interpreting his work is the way the playwright treated the motif of love between a man and a woman. Janoušek has succeeded in capturing the…

Proceedings of the conference of the same name, organised by the ATI on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Čapek’s play RUR at the National Theatre. Authored by Martina Pecková Černá, Hasan Zahirović. Prepared by: International Cooperation Department. Publication: February 2023

Published as an e-publication. The publication introduces the field of dance, which is amateurised by tens of thousands of children and young people in the Czech Republic, a field that has its own professionals but not a formal education system and which is a dynamic global cultural phenomenon. The lay public perceives these dance expressions as street dance or hip hop dance. The authors of the publication will clarify terminological issues, introduce the different styles and describe the dance practice of “street” in the Czech Republic. Author: collective of authors Publication: May 2023

This volume is the first comprehensive opportunity for Czech readers to encounter the important essayistic and theoretical work of the Swiss stage designer and director Adolph Appia (1862-1928), whose thinking about theatre fundamentally influenced European theatre in the first half of the twentieth century. The texts in which Appia explores not only the theatrical space, but also the relationship between actor and music, the relationship between music and situation, and the problems of staging the more broadly conceived Wagnerian drama. Appia’s texts have been selected and translated from French by the volume’s editor, Jan Hyvnar, who is also the author…

Publication on contemporary performing arts in the Czech environment for PQ international guests. The title of the publication is a working title. Martina Pecková Černá ed. Prepared by: Department of International Cooperation. Publication: June 2023

English-language abridged edition of Theatre and Freedom: The First Decade of Czech Theatre Independence after 1989. Martina Pecková Černá ed. Prepared by: Department of International Cooperation (within DKRVO). Publication: June 2023

Catalogue of the 15th Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Space. Author: collective of authors. Prepared by: Prague Quadrennial. Publication: August 2023

The second part of the publication Theatre and Freedom will focus on Czech independent theatre in the period 2000-2014. Martina Pecková Černá ed. Prepared by: Department of International Cooperation (within DKRVO). Publication: November 2023

A peer-reviewed theatrical periodical published three times a year by the Institute of Arts – Theatre Institute. It has been published since 1989. It is editorially prepared and its professional level is guaranteed by the Cabinet for the Study of Czech Theatre. Prepared by the Cabinet for the Study of Czech Theatre. Publication: during the year

Count Lažanský loved theatre. As an actor in the fields of lover and hero, he tried to establish himself in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and opened a castle theatre in his mansion in the West Bohemian town of Chysa. He acted exclusively in German, with one of his great roles being Goethe’s Faust. After ten years, he traded his theatrical career for a political one and became a member of the Reichstag Council for the radical Young Bohemians. In the Viennese parliament, however, he became especially famous for his pro-Jewish theatrics and scandals. He died at the age of only 37,…