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Slovak Theatre as a European Entity, strany: 13-20 Full text
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Publishers: Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research, VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
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
Dagmar Kročanová
The Limitations of Slovak Modernist Drama (Július Barč-Ivan as a Case Study)
The study discusses Slovak Modernist drama in the interwar period and analyses works by Július Barč-Ivan (1909–1953). It shows the heterogeneity and plurality of his approaches when constructing plays, which led to an innovative “creative destruction” of the dramatic form. Some of these innovations were based on implementing lyrical and epical principles in drama, whereas some of them were related to contexts of visual arts, painting, and film; some of them reflected philosophical, theological, and psychological concepts. The article also argues that Barč-Ivan, partially consciously and partially unconsciously, imposed limits and control on this destruction so that the form withstood and restricted the chaos. Regarding theatre, it argues that Barč-Ivan’s plays contain Modernist elements that resisted staging in his time and resisted staging generally, even though postmodern theatre might have brought some solutions to the challenges.
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Pages: 62 - 72
Language: English
Edition year: 2018
Keywords:
Slovak Modernist drama, Expressionist drama, Július Barč-Ivan (1909–1953), dramatic form, dramatis personae, dramatic plot, interdisciplinarity and multimedia in drama
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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