Making Something Happen Despite Borders and Critics: A Conversation with Artistic Leaders of Prague’s Archa Theatre, Ondřej Hrab and Jana Svobodová

Despite that historic role and its recent creation of only the third Czech production, Ordinary People, to be invited for the main program of the Avignon Festival (2019) in its seventy-year history, it still struggles for domestic acceptance. With the later formalization of a dramaturgical line of d...

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Published inTheatre journal (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 73; no. 1; p. E
Main Authors Beck, Dennis C, Hrab, Ondřej, Jana Svobodová’s
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.03.2021
Subjects
Communism
Conversation
Coronaviruses
Czech language
Documentary films
Festivals
Interviews
Theater
Wen Hui
Workshops
Czech Republic
China
Czechoslovakia
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Summary:Despite that historic role and its recent creation of only the third Czech production, Ordinary People, to be invited for the main program of the Avignon Festival (2019) in its seventy-year history, it still struggles for domestic acceptance. With the later formalization of a dramaturgical line of devised, documentary work, Svobodová began creating artistic social encounters with persons of differing cultures in pieces developed and performed in various places around the world (fig. 1). [...]it worked very well, but we were really, really frightened that we would lose the whole meaning of the show. [...]she was silent for one minute. Because the audience understood, it was actually much stronger than the original version when she was describing what happened at this massacre on Tiananmen Square (fig. 2).
ISSN:0192-2882
1086-332X