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230 Years of the Estates Theatre in Prague – the Creative Potential of One Theatre in a European Context
On 21 April 2013, it will be 230 years since the Estates Theatre in Prague opened its doors (1783). In Prague’s theatre history this stage occupies an exceptional position. It was the first theatre in the Czech lands to be assigned an enlightening function by its founder and builder Count František Antonín Nostic. It was intended to serve as an institution for the edification and education of the nation, and it was meant to fulfil this function for both the German and Czech populations in Prague and to do so by maintaining a multilingual repertoire of drama and opera works. Until 1862 Czech and German companies shared the theatre. In 1862 the Prague Provisional Theatre (Prozatímní divadlo) opened and was the first independent Czech theatre. Until 1920 the Estates Theatre, with its German-language repertoire, was one of Europe’s most prominent theatres and had active international ties. In 1920 the theatre was taken over by a Czech company.
Apr 27, 2012 5:31 PM MoreThe Prague Quadrennial Earned the State Twice What It Gave in Subsidies
A study of the economic impact of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, held last year in Prague, reveals that it was one of the most successful cultural projects of 2011, not just for artists, but also in an economic perspective. Research conducted among 18,000 individual paying visitors showed that in connection with their attendance at this event people spent more than 164 million Crowns and there was an increase in revenue of 393 million Crowns. Every Crown in the budget of the Prague Quadrennial thus generated almost 6 Crowns in revenue for the Czech economy and two Crowns of GDP.
Feb 2, 2012 6:39 PM MoreCall for the International Symposium for the Makers
Devised Dramaturgy: a Shared Space is an international symposium organized by the Prague Quadrennial in cooperation with some of the major Czech theatre organizations, venues and schools in the Czech Republic with the main aim at creating a platform for makers of devised theatre to map the main issues in the field and ways to talk about their practice, in order to strengthen new discourse in performance and performance space.
Jan 30, 2012 5:20 PM MoreAn Exhibition in Honour of Václav Havel Now Open at Kampa Museum
An exhibition titled Václav Havel – Citizen and Playwright, prepared by the Arts and Theatre Institute, is being held from 11 January to 25 March 2012 in the exhibition halls of Kampa Museum in Prague.
Jan 13, 2012 8:29 PM MoreThe database of the Scenography Collection and Documentation of the ATI is now on-line
The Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) in Prague has posting another portion of digitised materials from its collection of documents. Having already provided access to more than 140,000 images of theatre performances in the theatre photography database (http://db.divadelni-ustav.cz/photographs.aspx) as part of the Theatre Institute’s Virtual Research Room last year, there are now almost 15,000 stage and costume designs by 337 artists that can be accessed at http://db.divadelni-ustav.cz/scenography.aspx.
Jan 11, 2012 8:45 PM MoreGAME’S NOT OVER: The Arts and Theatre Institute’s first e-book
The Arts and Theatre Institute is currently publishing its very first e-book. The electronic book GAME’S NOT OVER – New Czech Plays (not only) for Your Tablet / E-Reader brings you recent plays by Czech authors. Though the publication includes a broad spectrum of playwrights – beginning with the youngest generation up to 35 years of age (Radmila Adamová, Magdaléna Frydrych Gregorová, Petr Kolečko, Kateřina Rudčenková), middle-aged authors (David Drábek, Roman Sikora, Petr Zelenka), and also mature doyens of the Czech cultural scene (Arnošt Goldflam, Václav Havel, Milan Uhde) – all authors included are currently active personalities who have participated in contemporary Czech theatre not just in the roles of playwrights and authors but also as literary managers, directors and / or artistic directors.
Dec 27, 2011 10:03 PM MoreThe Arts and Theatre Institute bids farewell to one of the greatest Czech playwrights
The sad news of the death of Václav Havel has personally touched many in the wide community of theatre artists that Havel belonged to for more than half a century. Havel had ties to the Theatre Institute (now the Arts and Theatre Institute) already back in the 1960s and again during the Velvet Revolution, when the Theatre Institute gave support to the theatres on strike. When the continued existence of the Theatre Institute was at risk, Václav Havel interceded to keep it in Prague.
Dec 20, 2011 11:17 PM MoreMARIONNETTES AN ZERO – an exhibition of Czech puppetry at the World Festival of Puppet Theatre in France
On Friday, 16 September, a gala opening was held at the town hall in France’s ‘puppetry metropolis’ Charleville-Mézières for the exhibition Marionnettes An Zero (Puppets since Year Zero), which was organised by the Arts and Theatre Institute as part of the biennial World Festival of Puppet Theatre (16. 9. - 25. 9. 2011). The festival, which this year is celebrating its 50th jubilee, on this occasion welcomed 132 theatre groups from 28 countries in its main programme, 120 groups in the accompanying programme taking place on the streets, and 14 exhibitions drawing attention to the history of puppet theatre in the host region of the Ardennes and in other centres of puppet art, one of which is without a doubt the Czech Republic.
Sep 22, 2011 3:43 PM MoreThe profile of the Czech Republic 2011 has been published in the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe
The second profile of the Czech Republic in the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe is currently available for download in Czech and English versions. Its author is Pavla Petrová, the director of the Arts and Theatre Institute.
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