Czech Theatre

Dalibor Tureček: Contradictory Affinities (the German-Language Contexts of Revivalist Drama)

The publication focuses on conventional German-language drama and especially on the Czech reception of the Viennese suburban theatres (including Nestroy and Raimund) and the reception of sentimental drama (in particular the plays of A. von Kotzebue and E. Raupach). These plays were strongly represented in the repertoires of Czech theatres. Consequently the publication devotes attention to the specific form of individual translations and in comparison with the original German versions. Possible parallels were sought with original Czech work. German-language production formed an important part of contemporary production and many aspects of the plays of Tyl and Klicpera and Czech work on the whole can be interpreted in relation to it. 
Price 140 Czk / 190 pp. / ISBN 80-7008-122-8

Jarmila Veltruská: The Sacred and the Profane (Eight Studies on Early Czech Theatre)

The author is one of the biggest experts on mediaeval theatre and has contributed to advancing knowledge about Czech mediaeval theatre, for instance, with her book A Sacred Farce from Medieval Bohemia: The Quack. This volume presents a selection of studies on Czech themes by the author originally published in English and French. The author regards a sacred-profane dualism to be a basic feature of mediaeval theatre: the integration of profane or even vulgar elements into religious plays in a way underscores the organic unity of the sacred and the profane in the world of mediaeval man. For us, the studies by Jarmila Veltruská are all the more interesting in that the author discusses plays of Czech provenience in comparison within a European context. 
Price 190 Czk / 181 pp. / ISBN 80-7008-200-3

Jiří Veltruský: Writings on the Theory of Theatre

A collection of writings on the theatre by the Czech aesthetician and theatre arts scholar Jiří Veltruský. The author draws on Otakar Zich and the Prague School and enlarges on these impulses in connection with findings in recent semiotics.
Price 95 Czk / 270 pp. / ISBN 80-7008-046-9 

Jaroslav Vostrý: The Drama Club 1965–1972 (Dramaturgy in Practice)

The author expounds on the concept of practical dramaturgy through the genesis and development of the Drama Club in the years when he headed the theatre and helped shape it as its dramaturg and director. 
Price 120 Czk / 200 pp. / ISBN 80-7008-061-2