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Czech and Slovak theatre abroad : in the USA, Canada, Australia and England / compiled and edited by Věra Bořkovec.
LIBRA PG5009 .C94 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- East European monographs ; 690.
- East European monographs ; 690
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czech drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Czech drama.
- Slovak drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Slovak drama.
- Czechs--Foreign countries.
- Czechs.
- Slovaks--Foreign countries.
- Slovaks.
- Foreign countries.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- These Papers Examine the nature and function of Czech and Slovak theatre abroad from the nineteenth century to the present day. Immigrants used theater as a way to preserve their language and culture, and the plays performed were usually classic Czech or Slovak works. After World War II and during the Cold War, theaters in the United States, like the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia and the No Curtain Theatre in Washington, D.C., produced mainly Czech plays in English translation to acquaint the American public and younger generations with plays by dissident writers such as Vaclav Havel, Ivan Kilma, and Pavel Kohout. These papers are written by noted scholars of drama and form a unique contribution to theater studies.
- Contents:
- Czech and Slovak theatre in the USA / Věra Bořkovec
- Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre: Fifteen years of adventure / Vít Hořejš
- Czech and Slovak theatre in Canada / Josef Čermák
- "Please share my regards with Messrs. Havel and Kohout ...": Czech theatre encounters the Canadian audience / Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz
- "It all started with Adolf ...": a short history of Toronto's new theatre (Nové divadlo) / Frank J. Safertal and Pavel Král
- Czech theatre on the Pacific shores of Canada: 29 years of Theatre Around the Corner in Vancouver / Josef Skála
- Report on Czech expatriate theatre in Australia / Oliver Fiala
- Czech theatre in London / Milan Kocourek.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0880335882
- 9780880335881
- OCLC:
- 144577281
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