Otakar Zich and Prague's 'Semiotic Stage' : reading performance avant la lettre

• Authors: Veronika Ambros
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Zich's unique views of dramatic work initiated a performance theory avant la lettre. It was, however, as I argue a collective effort of Prague School theorists, whose polemics with Zich and among each other recognized the inherent semiotic potential of Zich's work. Often related to contemporary stage experiments, Zich's ideas explored topics like the mobility and hierarchy of signs, their respective functions, and the position of dramatic text, the concept of the 'actor's figure'. Zich and the discussions he incited are also useful for ideas of transitions between theatre and ceremony that enrich the current approach to the audience, space, and characters on the contemporary stage.

Keywords

EN

dramatic work; semiotics of theatre; Chinese theatre; avant-garde theatre; folk theatre; dramatic action; synthetic and analytical theory; dramatic text; actor; puppets; playwright; space; audience

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-29
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Veronika Ambros

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic