Theatrical apparatus and social change: The Divadlo práce project

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Theatrical apparatus and social change: The Divadlo práce project

Original language description

The essay discusses the project of the Theatre of Labor that was designed and thought out by Czech avant-garde director and leader of Theatre D Emil František Burian and his scenographer Miroslav Kouřil between 1936-1939. They proposed a theatre institution, situated on one of Prague islands, that manifested the concept of theatre as a center of culture and combined black-box open theatre space, special “theatergraph” space for combination of theatre and cinema, small state for declamation and in early stage a social housing. Using the concept of apparatus/dispositif, the embodiment of the main idea of Burian and Kouřil in the project, that is that the avant-garde have to change its material and organizational base in order to reach new aesthetics and consequently change the dominant social order, is analyzed. Consequently, with a special attention to the topography of Prague islands and riverbanks, the notion of (contra)hegemony is employed to look at the paradox that the project manifested on one hand an attempt to establish a theatre for working class as antithesis of national, bourgeois theatre, and on the other the attempt to inscribe this ambitious proposition into the modernist ethos and narrative of the first Czechoslovak republic. The Theatre of Labor project is compared to other projects and realization of interwar theatre architecture and its analysis is framed by the discussion on the proper building and space for avant-garde theatre in 1900s and 1930s.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60402 - Architectural design

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Reclaimed Avant-garde: spaces and stages of avant-garde theatre in Cetral-Eastern Europe

ISBN

978-83-66124-05-9

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

119-133

Publisher name

Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute

Place of publication

Warsaw

Event location

Warsaw

Event date

Nov 13, 2017

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

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