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Based both on archival material and Veltruský's theoretical works, the study maps Jiří Veltruský's interest in Asian theatre and its influence on his thinking of theatre. Individual examples help to demonstrate the ways in which principles of Asian theatrical forms manifest themselves in Veltruský's structuralist and semiotic conceptions, such as character, sign, principles of semiosis, actor's/acting convention etc. The author also asks the following question: to what extend could Jiří Veltruský have contributed to the theoretical research of Asian theatre?