POETA ĽUDOVEJ KRÁSY, ALEBO DOMA NA OCHOTNÍCKOM, HOSŤ NA PROFESIONÁLNOM JAVISKU

• Authors: Ladislav Čavojský

Title variants

EN

Poet of the folklore beauty or at home on amateurish stage and a guest on the professional stage

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author, a renowned and still active Slovak theatre historian and critic, publishes one of his key chapters of the monograph written on the prime and until today most staged playwright of the amateur theatre, Ferko Urbánek. The author of this study examines the interest of theatre professionals in the plays by Ferko Urbánek and searches for objective and subjective reasons which caused that this loved by audience and greatly preferred by amateur actors playwright could reach the professional stage only through overcoming the great difficulties. He concludes that in the interwar period and after World War II alike, the theatre directors, dramaturges and the directors justified their indifference by pointing to the simplicity, sentimentality and melodrama of some of his texts. However, these arguments were the excuse for the rejection due to Urbánek‘s concept of Christian perception of culture. But Urbánek did not live up to the recognition of the qualities of at least his best plays even after the social change. His centenary was commemorating by a single professional theatre.

Keywords

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STAGE; THEATRE; URBÁNEK FERKO; AMATEUR; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 255 - 286

Contributors

author

Ladislav Čavojský

• Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic