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Publikované: 13. 6. 2022

Rok vydania: 2018

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Jazyk: anglický

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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

In light of the growing crisis of alienation and the uprooting and loss of basic ties with the local cultural community, theatre plays a considerable role. It helps in re-anchoring the viewer’s experience in the modern world and in a given place and community by means of traditional stories, rituals, and practices which usually exist today in the form of remnants, traces, and fragments. Such a trend has been called “ethnographic theatre”, “theatres of sources” or “ritual theatre”. In Poland this is associated with Jerzy Grotowski’s theatrical explorations and is represented by the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices; it remains extremely strong today. In this paper, I look at a few examples of this trend in theatre: Teatr Pieśń Kozła [Goat’s Song Theatre], Teatr Chorea [Chorea Theatre], Teatr Węgajty [Węgajty Theatre], and Teatr w Sejnach [Theatre in Sejny]. Fragments of the past preserved in various cultural texts which are used in these theatres’ performances reveal their performative potential within two areas. One is determined by the need to restore the lost collective memory of a given group, inhabiting a specific territory, with a long history and rich folk traditions. The other scope is defined by the principle of searching for the roots of contemporary culture in the old cultures of Europe, revealing the prefigurations of human fate, vitae humana. In both cases, the artistic work of the aforementioned theatrical groups with the resources of old folk culture serves to reincorporate them into the bloodstream of theatre and contemporary culture through remixes, reinterpretations, representations, and reconstructions. The activities undertaken by these theatres, encompassed in a framework and specific aesthetic/axiological/social order, therefore become an attempt to respond to various processes of globalization. They inspire viewers to define their own identity on the basis of memory and their local culture as well as the culture of their ancestors.

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Strany: 167 - 181

Jazyk: anglický

Rok vydania: 2018

ethnographic theatre, ritual theatre, theatres of sources, cultural memory, cultural tradition

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