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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
Elena Knopová
Memory Appeal as a Theatrical Value: The Power of Humanity and the Ideology of Patriotism
Since 2000, Slovak theatre has been increasingly focused on themes related to Slovak history. There has been a distinctive body of productions that portray and reinterpret the breakthrough periods in the socio-political development of the country while providing a new perspective on the fixed perception of personalities who used to be their component parts. For example, the 19th-century Enlightenment period, the Second World War and the period of the wartime Slovak State, and the Communist regime period from the latter half of the 20th century. During those periods, theatre professionals were intrigued by the different versions of totalitarian regime and their impact upon life and society. From local themes, we move to broader European contexts which often are documentary-like by nature and testify to the fact that even in Slovakia people have been living in European times. Productions are created on the basis of the dramatizations of literary works that capture collective and personal remembrances of the witnesses of these processes (for instance, Vojna nemá ženskú tvár
[War’s Unwomanly Face] by Svetlana Alexievich and Vtedy v Bratislave [Once Upon a Time in Bratislava] by Jo Langer). Reminiscences are heard from the stages in the
form of memory chorales and intimate confessions. Their common feature is a breaking away from collective ideologies and identities (motherland and nation), favoured or dictated in the past, and coming back to the value of the life of a human being as a humanistically thinking and feeling being.
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Pages: 120 - 135
Language: anglický
Edition year: 2018
Keywords:
Vojna nemá ženskú tvár, Vtedy v Bratislave, contemporary Slovak theatre, the Great Patriotic War, the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia
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