Theatre review 2/2017

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Divadelní revue 2/2017 (published in December 2017) focuses on Polish theatre in two articles: Dariusz Kosiński, in his essay “Post-theatre and the return of politics”, uses the example of selected contemporary Polish theatre productions to reflect on the cultural and social transformations of Poland in recent years and the response of theatre makers to the current situation; Dominika Łarionow, a theatre historian from Łódź, reflects on the “uneasy legacy” of Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre and visual art. In other contributions of the issue, Andrea Jochmanová describes at length the work of stage designer A. V. Hrsky (1890-1954) as head of set design at the National Theatre in Brno in the 1921/1922 season; Nina Vangeli’s essay “Dance Productions. The same author also interviewed the issue’s teacher, theatre scholar and also a prominent liaison to Polish theatre – Jana Pilátová. Zuzana Augustová writes about Jitka Goriaux Pelechová’s monograph on Thomas Ostermeier. Ladislava Petišková documents the early attempt of the Theatre of Satire to bring about a renaissance of pantomime art in the Czech Republic. Miroslav Horníček’s production of Circus of Hope disappeared along with the company during the political processes the country went through after February 1948. In his text, Radan Dolejš attempts to confront the surviving accounts of Karel Hašler’s death in Mauthausen in 1941.