SAD 3/2023

ARTICLES
/totally/ hybrid interview with Karel Král

Radka Kunderová
CTITIQUE AS AN INITIATOR OF THEATRICAL LIFE

Pavel Janoušek:
HE WHO SEEKS AND STRENGHTENS MARGINS
critique Karel Král and his thinking and writing about theatre

Milo Juráni
VERDONCK CHARTER: SUSTAINABLE THEATRE VS. ARTISTIC FREEDOM
manifests and challenges for more ecological theatre, part 3

Jitka Šotkovská:
WHAT IS LEFT OF THE CLASSICS
Three sisters and Cyrano at Slovácké divadlo
A.P.Čechov: Three sisters, directed by Zetel, Slovácké divadlo Uherské Hradiště, 2022; Martin Crimp, Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Dodo Gombár, Slovácké divadlo Uherské Hradiště, 2022.

Barbora Sedláková
TRANSLATION OF CLASSICS FOR TODAY READERS
four out-of-Prague performances by Jakub Čermák
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Jakub Čermák, Josef Doležal: The Sorrows of Young Werther, directed by J.Čermák, Horácké divadlo Jihlava, 2019; Božena Němcová, Barbora Jandová, J.Čermák:  Secret, Madness, Oddity, Love (Women of Božena Němcová), directed by J.Čermák, Horácké divadlo Jihlava, 2020; William Shakespeare: Hamlet, directed by J.Čermák, Malá scéna Jihočeského divadla České Budějovice, 2022; Tereza Březinová, Pavel Trojan jr.: Orlando, directed by J.Čermák, Malá scéna Divadla J.K.Tyla, 2023

Josef Rubeš
STRUGGLE ABOUT WHITE DISEASE, VERSION 2023
Čapek’s play at Divadlo ABC
Karel Čapek: White Disease, directed by Michal Dočekal, Městská divadla pražská – ABC, 2023

Barbora Etlíková
SHADOWS OF MONUMENTAL PEOPLE
Kacířské eseje and Zvěřinec
Jan Patočka, Miroslav Bambušek: Heretical Essays, directed by M.Bambušek, Studio Hrdinů, 2020; Josef Zvěřina, Miroslav Bambušek: Menagerie, directed by M.Bambušek, Studio Hrdinů, 2023

PHENOMENON LÉBL AND US
survey about God Hugged Me and Nothing
God Hugged Me and Nothing, script after diaries of Petr Lébl and directed by Daniela Špinar, Vzlet, 2023

Ester Žantovská:
THOUSAND SHAPES OF PAIN
Thousands of Delights by Masopust and Abyss at Rubín
Boris Jedinák, Petr Jeřábek and co.: Thousands of Delights, directed by B.Jedinák and P.Jeřábek, Masopust, 2022; Dagmar Fričová: Abyss, directed by Lucie Ferenczová, A studio Rubín, 2023

Vladimír Mikulka
WITHOUT ME YOU WIL SURELY DIE
Divadlo Na zábradlí: About Pavel
Daňa Horáková: About Pavel, directed by Anna Klimešová, Divadlo Na zábradlí, 2023

Vladimír Mikulka
BETWEEN WHISPERS AND POLYSTYRENE
Cirkopolis Festival – first halve
S’assurer de ses propres murmures, by Nicolas Mathis, Collectif Petit Travers, 2020; Plock!, by Hanne Vandersteene, 2017; EZ, by Elena Zanzu; Materia, by Andrea Salustri, 2019

Kateřina Lesch
TWO STUDIES OF BITTER-SWEET RECIPROCITY
Cirkopolis Festival – second halve
Un loup pour l'homme: Cuir, by Arno Ferrera, 2020; TYhle and comp.: Suitecaseboarding, by Lukáš Karásek

Veronika Švecová
LIVE CINEMA IN CONTEMPORARY CZECH PUPPET THEATRE II.

PLAYS FOR KAREL
Jiří Pokorný: A LITTLE GARDEN
Vít Peřina: IN THE BOX
Viliam Klimáček: SOPHOCLES APPLIES FOR A SUBSIDY
S.d.Ch.: WE WILL BE WISER AFTER AN AUTOPSY
Tomáš Kafka: RAZZLE DAZZLE MUST GO ON
Karel Haloun: DOCTORS
ChatGPT (March 14 version): KING OF KAREL KRÁL
Petr Nikl: GOLDEN HANDS

Róbert Štefančík
ENCLAVE OF THE /IM/POSSIBLE
notes from masterclass at Odin Teatret

Barbora Sedláková
I CAN’T, I DON’T KNOW, I DON’T WANT… SO WHAT?
Dylan Moran at Kongresové centrum, Prague

Summary 3/2023

The main part of this issue celebrates the 70^th birthday of the Svět a divadlo (World and Theatre) magazine’s founder and its editor-in-chief until 2021, Karel Král. It opens with „Articles”, an interview with Král by Jakub Škorpil that looks back at the history of the magazine. It also deals with an array of themes of the theatre today. The opening section also includes studies by Radka Kunderová („Critique as an Initiator of Theatrical Life”) and Pavel Janoušek („He Who Seeks and Strengthens Margins”), looking at the dominant themes and styles of Král’s more than forty years of critical work. As a present for his jubilee, several „kindred” playwrights wrote short plays at the invitation of the editorial board and these are published under the title „Plays for Karel”.  They include works by Jiří Pokorný (A Little Garden), Vít Peřina (In the Packet), Viliam Klimáček (Sophocles Asks for a Grant), S.d.Ch. (We Will Be Wiser after an Autopsy), Tomáš Kafka (Razzle Dazzle Must Go On), Karel Haloun (Doctors), Petr Nikl (Golden Hands), and AI ChatGTP (King of Karel Král). S.d.Ch. and Karel Haloun illustrated their texts themselves, others are accompanied by illustrations gifted by Lucie Lomová, Barbora Hubená, Silvie Belis and Vojtěch Velický. Two series of the year continue in this issue, too. Milo Juráni seeks inspiration in his series „Ecological Thinking Onstage” from the so-called „Verdonck’s Charter” and the conflict between artistic freedom and sustainable theatre. In the series „Live Cinema in Contemporary Czech Puppet Theatre” Veronika Švecová then marvels chiefly at stage designer Antonín Šilar, who collaborates with various directors and has had a fundamental impact on the breakthrough of different forms of live cinema into Czech theatre. The occasional series of „theatrical notions from travels” now brings director Róbert Štefančík’s account from the masterclass at Odin Teatret („Enclave of the /Im/Possible”). In the section „Classic… and the New Classics” Jitka Šotkovská writes („What is Left of the Classics”) about two notable productions at the Theatre of Moravian Slovakia in Uherské Hradiště: a semi-improvised Chekhov’s Three Sisters (directed by Zetel) and Crimp’s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac (directed by Dodo Gombár). Barbora Sedláková („Translation of Classics for Today Readers”) reviews four out-of-Prague productions by Jakub Čermák: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Secret, Madness, Oddity, Love from Horácké Theatre Jihlava, Hamlet from the South Bohemian Theatre České Budějovice and a musical adaptation of Orlando at J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. Josef Rubeš writes about the newest production of Karel Čapek’s White Disease at the Prague Municipal Theatres, directed by Michal Dočekal („Fight for the White Disease, Version 2023”), and Barbora Etlíková closes the section with her essay „Shadows of Monumental People” dedicated to two Miroslav Bambušek productions staged at the Prague Studio Hrdinů and dedicated to historic personalities – the philosopher Jan Patočka and the theologian Josef Zvěřina. The section „Pain and Fights… Phenomenon” includes a survey about the production God Hugged Me and Nothing by director Daniela Špinar, based on the last journals of director Petr Lébl before his death. Jakub Škorpil, Barbora Etlíková and directors Adam Svozil and Eliška Říhová were among those who respond to the survey. Ester Žantovská („Thousands Shapes of Pain”) writes about two productions dedicated to the theme of anxiety and depression – Boris Jedinák’s and Petr Jeřábek’s Thousands of Delights at Eliade’s Library of the Divadlo Na Zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade) and Dagmar Fričová’s Abyss staged at the Prague A studio Rubín by director Lucie Ferenzová. Vladimír Mikulka closes the section with a review of the adaptation of Daňa Horáková’s memoir book About Pavel about her life with screenwriter and film maker Pavel Juráček, staged at the Divadlo Na zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade) under the direction of Anna Klimešová („Without Me You Will Surely Die“). The circus section „Whispers… of Intercommunity” is dedicated to the festival Cirkopolis. Vladimír Mikulka („Between Whispers and Polystyrene”) writes about the productions S’assurer de ses propres murmures by Collectif Petit Travers, Plock! by the ensemble Grengesval, EZ by Elena Zazou and Materia by Andrea Salustri. Kateřina Lesch („Two Essays of Bitter-Sweet Reciprocity”) adds reviews of productions Cuir by the ensemble Un loup pour l’homme and Suitcaseboarding by the Czech ensemble tYhle & Co. In addition to these sections there is Barbora Sedláková’s report on the Prague performance of the Irish comedian Dylan Moran („I Can’t, I Don’t Know, I Don’t Want… So What?”).