Mezinárodní kolokvium │1990s Revisited: Central European Theatre and the Political

Name: Mezinárodní kolokvium │1990s Revisited: Central European Theatre and the Political
Start: 2024-11-14T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-14T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Karlova 26, 116 65

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Karlova 26, 116 65 | Prague, PR

Jak se proměnila společenská funkce divadla a jeho vztah k politice po pádu komunistického režimu? Touto otázkou se bude zabývat mezinárodní kolokvium Katedry teorie a kritiky DAMU . Odborná debata se zaměří na srovnání situace v českém, slovenském a polském divadle 90. let 20. století. Jazykem kolokvia je angličtina a vystoupí na něm přední odbornice na dané téma z České republiky, Polska a Slovenska s následujícími příspěvky:
Anna R. Burzyńska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 1990’s – The Birth of a New Political Theatre 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 theatre has not been systematically examined. With the disappearance of the authoritative regime, the original concept of the theatre’s political function, which oscillated between legitimating and covertly subverting the status quo, was exhausted. At the beginning of the new decade, theatre was searching for a new position in society while the economic and institutional framework of theatre in individual countries was restructuring. Theatre historians have tended to label the 1990s as the time of “theatre crisis” or to consider the 1990s theatre apolitical, but the period is yet to be surveyed to a greater depth.
How can we comprehend and articulate the relationship between theatre and the gradually consolidating, reshaped public spheres during the 1990s? How was theatre’s attitude to the political redefined? How did the theatre 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/