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Playing (with) Macbeth on Recent Czech Stages
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Unlike for other European cultures, whose “national Shakespearean play” was usually Hamlet, for Czechs, it was Macbeth that fulfilled this function. Indeed, Czech theatregoing and reading audiences have been encountering the “Scottish play” since the late 18th century and especially at times of social, political and moral crises, productions of Macbeth served as their allies or proxies of a kind. To this day, Macbeth is one of the most staged Shakespearean plays, with an exceptionally large number of new productions in theatres all over the country since the late 2010s (often more than one a year). As such, Macbeth especially yields to a theatre experiment or social commentary – more than most plays by Shakespeare. This presentation will focus on two recent Czech productions of the play – David Jařab’s Macbeth – Too Much Blood at Divadlo Na Zábradlí in Prague (2017) and Michal Zetel’s 2023 adaptation for Horácké divadlo in Jihlava (2023). The paper will demonstrate the range of possibilities that Shakespeare’s play offers to contemporary Czech directors, focusing on their strategies to re-contextualise Macbeth to make it a very current and intimate play, despite its canonical status and perceived “foreignness”. |
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