Monography profile

Book type: edited book

Published: 13. 6. 2022

Edition year: 2018

Pages: 214

Language: English

ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (print), ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (online)

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In: Theatre as a Value-based Discourse Slovak Theatre and Contemporary European Theatre Culture: Conference Proceedings from the International Scientific Conference 5th and 6th of October 2017 Bratislava, Slovakia

The article presents an overview of the conference’s core themes, especially the relationship between Slovak and European theatre and the issue of values introduced by theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to authenticity and truthfulness, there are negative themes alerting to a crisis in values that has been prevailing ever since the time of the early generation of authors of the theatre of the absurd from the mid-20th century. Sometimes the purpose of such an image is to alert our contemporaries to start seeking a way out of the crisis. However, in recent years it has become imperative to ask ourselves whether the predominance of negative themes has the power to mobilize men to defiance and put them on a mission for new points of departure. This paper poses questions and brings up certain thematic subjects, assuming that the papers presented will strive to give answers to the highlighted theme from a variety of perspectives.

Pages: 13 - 20

Language: English

Edition year: 2018

Slovak theatre, European theatre, the theatre of the absurd, in-yer-face drama, crisis of values

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