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Mezinárodní kolokvium │1990s Revisited: Central European Theatre and the Political
International colloquium │1990s Revisited: Central European Theater and the Political
Event by: DAMU - Divadelní fakulta AMU, Katedra teorie a kritiky DAMU
Location: DISK Theater, Karlova 26, Praha 1
About event
How did the social function of the theater and its relationship to politics change after the fall of the communist regime? This question will be dealt with by the international colloquium of the Department of Theory and Criticism of DAMU. The expert debate will focus on comparing the situation in Czech, Slovak and Polish theater in the 1990s. The language of the colloquium is English and leading experts on the subject from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia will speak at it with the following contributions:
Anna R. Burzyńska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 1990's – The Birth of a New Political Theater in Poland
Jana Wild (Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava) The Political of Doing and Seeing Otherwise
Radka Kunderová (DAMU, Prague) Challenging Dichotomies: The Political on the Early 1990s Czech Stages
After the fall of communism, Eastern and Central European countries experienced sweeping political and social changes, yet the influence such transformation exerted over theater has not been systematically examined. With the disappearance of the authoritative regime, the original concept of the theater's political function, which oscillated between legitimizing and covertly subverting the status quo, was exhausted. At the beginning of the new decade, theater was searching for a new position in society while the economic and institutional framework of theater in individual countries was restructuring. Theater historians have tended to label the 1990s as the time of "theatre crisis" or to consider the 1990s theater apolitical, but the period is yet to be surveyed to a greater depth.
How can we comprehend and articulate the relationship between theater and the gradually consolidating, reshaped public spheres during the 1990s? How was theater's attitude to the political redefined? How did the theater aesthetic respond (or fail to respond) to the changing political and social contexts in different European countries? And what role did the so-called postmodernism play in such processes?
The colloquium will focus on the situation in Central Europe and will contrast and compare developments in Polish, Slovak, and Czech theatre.
https: //www.damu.cz/cs/udalosti/mezinarodni-kolokvium-1990s-revisited-central-european-theatre-and-the-political-2116/
Anna R. Burzyńska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 1990's – The Birth of a New Political Theater in Poland
Jana Wild (Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava) The Political of Doing and Seeing Otherwise
Radka Kunderová (DAMU, Prague) Challenging Dichotomies: The Political on the Early 1990s Czech Stages
After the fall of communism, Eastern and Central European countries experienced sweeping political and social changes, yet the influence such transformation exerted over theater has not been systematically examined. With the disappearance of the authoritative regime, the original concept of the theater's political function, which oscillated between legitimizing and covertly subverting the status quo, was exhausted. At the beginning of the new decade, theater was searching for a new position in society while the economic and institutional framework of theater in individual countries was restructuring. Theater historians have tended to label the 1990s as the time of "theatre crisis" or to consider the 1990s theater apolitical, but the period is yet to be surveyed to a greater depth.
How can we comprehend and articulate the relationship between theater and the gradually consolidating, reshaped public spheres during the 1990s? How was theater's attitude to the political redefined? How did the theater aesthetic respond (or fail to respond) to the changing political and social contexts in different European countries? And what role did the so-called postmodernism play in such processes?
The colloquium will focus on the situation in Central Europe and will contrast and compare developments in Polish, Slovak, and Czech theatre.
https: //www.damu.cz/cs/udalosti/mezinarodni-kolokvium-1990s-revisited-central-european-theatre-and-the-political-2116/