ČRIEPKY Z DIVADELNÉHO OBRAZU SÚČASNEJ SLOVENSKEJ DRAMATIKY (VYROVNÁVANIE SA S MINULOSŤOU)

• Authors: Dagmar Podmaková

Title variants

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Fragments from the image of contemporary Slovak drama (coming to grips with the past)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Since the 1990s, Slovak drama has been increasingly affected by contemporary Western drama and it has developed its own appearance. Since the beginning of the 21st century, all forms of its structure, content and scenic interpretative means have been referred to as “new drama“ for convenience. At the beginning of this new path of the development of contemporary drama, some dramatists or authors of drama were inclined to work with a traditional building up of the drama text. A number of them purposely broke the compactness of form and content and favoured film language with its rapidly sequenced events and thoughts. The new drama characters are heroes of our time, stripped bare of niceties, oftentimes acting against the backdrop of the older stories of individuals or historical time periods. For instance, the dramatisation of Rozner‘s prose Sedem dní do pohrebu (Seven Days to Funeral) or Klimáček’s plays about Gustáv Husák and the communist era. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution some drama texts build on an indirect contrast between hope for a change for the better and the current state of society. The first one is about coming to grips with the past by using a form of art documentary of a drama text. The second one is the appearance of sitcom, a television genre, on the stage whereby the text is being created during rehearsals and the authors seek themes and shape their attitudes towards the protagonists of their stories. The project www.narodnycintorin.sk is a good example of this. Here, two worlds meet: the personalities of Slovak history, active literary and political figures, and the personalities of our present time. The third strand of texts builds on corruption in its sophisticated form, involving business companies and political interested parties. The author analyses some productions which may be included in the above streams of new Slovak drama.

Keywords

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SLOVAK DRAMA; HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 141 – 160

Contributors

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Dagmar Podmaková

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