Theatre review 1/2017

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Divadelní revue 1/2017 (published in August) brings essays by Alena Sarkissian on the beginnings of acting in classical Greece, Daniela Čadková on a forgotten genre of 19th-century Czech laughing culture – parodistic operettas, an essay by Natálie Nečasová and Dorota Gremlicová on the cosmopolitan career of dancer Zdenka Podhajská, and an analysis of Luc Bondy’s Triumph of Love by Jitka Goriaux Pelechová. As part of the May conference Perspectives of Theatre Studies, organised on the initiative of the Theatre Studies Society, a panel discussion on the analysis of the production took place – the issue presents the opening thesis by David Drozd and the reactions of Helena Spurná, Pavel Janoušek, Martin Pšenička and Martin Bernátek. Barbara Topolová talked to the “appropriately cheeky” Zdená Benešová, long-time head of the National Theatre Archive in Prague. In the review section, you will find texts by Pavel Janoušek on a book about Čapek’s dramaturgy, Jan Šotkovský on two Frejk publications, Daniela Čadková on a critical edition of the melodrama Hippodamia and Tomáš Havelka on the comic work of Markéta Klosová.