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Authentic Theatre

Author(s): Miloš Mistrík
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: authentic theatre; interpretation of a dramatic text; 20th century directing; Slovak theatre;
Summary/Abstract: From the moment when the profession of a director was established at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; the relations between drama and theatre have changed. Up till then; drama dominated the pair; but the director and the staging team began to gain in importance. For instance; the 20th century was occupied with an issue of how the crisis in drama can be resolved; and how will the principle of epic theatre develop. With the passage of time; more and more important becomes what the director brings into the message which a given performance proposes to the reader. There are four variants of the relation between drama and theatre; based upon the dominant factor: 1) the dominance of the stage reproduction of a text; 2) the dominance of the director’s interpretation of a text; 3) the dominance of the ideational confrontation with the text; 4) the dominance of an authentic message of the director and the staging team through the use; or without a dramatic text. This last variant is most visible in the 21st century; and it also influences the current playwriting; though the remaining three variants are still present in theatrical practice.

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