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Otakar Zich and Prague's 'Semiotic Stage' : reading performance avant la lettre

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Authors

AMBROS Veronika

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Theatralia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142546
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-1-2
Keywords dramatic work; semiotics of theatre; Chinese theatre; avant-garde theatre; folk theatre; dramatic action; synthetic and analytical theory; dramatic text; actor; puppets; playwright; space; audience
Description Zich's unique views of dramatic work initiated a performance theory avant la lettre. It was, however, as I argue a collective effort of Prague School theorists, whose polemics with Zich and among each other recognized the inherent semiotic potential of Zich's work. Often related to contemporary stage experiments, Zich's ideas explored topics like the mobility and hierarchy of signs, their respective functions, and the position of dramatic text, the concept of the 'actor's figure'. Zich and the discussions he incited are also useful for ideas of transitions between theatre and ceremony that enrich the current approach to the audience, space, and characters on the contemporary stage.
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