Trial by Theatre : Reports on Czech Drama.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- I Bohemia Resurgent -- National Awakening -- National Theatre -- Arenas and Tingle Tangle, Cafés Chantants, and Cabaret -- Turn of the Century -- II Independence: The Founding and Fall of the First Republic -- In the New Republic -- Devětsil and the Avant-Garde -- "The Daring Threesome": Honzl, Frejka, E. F. Burian -- Jindřich Honzl and the Dědrasbor -- Jiří Frejka and Constructivism -- Honzl, Frejka, and the Liberated Theatre -- Frejka and the Theatre Dada -- E. F. Burian and the Voiceband -- Voskovec, Werich, and the Liberated Theatre -- Jaroslav Ježek and the Jazz Revue -- The Turn of the Decade -- The Prague Structuralists -- Frejka at the National Theatre -- E. F. Burian and Déčko -- The Fettered Theatre -- III Under the Protectorate -- E. F. Burian and the Gestapo -- The Little Theatre for 99 and Occupied Prague -- Terezín and the Concentration Camps -- IV Liberation, Victorious February, and What Became of the Avant-Garde -- Brief Window: 1945-1948 -- Socialist Realism -- The Daring Threesome and the Thief of Happiness -- After Stalin -- V The Golden Sixties -- Spring Awakening -- Akord Club, Reduta, and the Text-Appeal -- Otomar Krejča at the National Theatre -- Laterna magika -- The Theatre on the Balustrade -- Founding of the Theatre on the Balustrade -- Ivan Vyskočil at the Theatre on the Balustrade -- Jan Grossman at the Theatre on the Balustrade -- No Heroes Live in Thebes with Otomar Krejča -- The Invention of the Grenoble -- Václav Havel's The Garden Party -- Ubu Roi, Beckett, and Ionesco -- Havel's The Memorandum -- Grossman's The Trial, and the End of an Era -- The State Theatre Studio (Státní divadelní studio) and Other Small Stages -- Origin of the State Theatre Studio -- Suchý, Šlitr, and Semafor -- Paravan -- The Drama Club (Činoherní klub).

Maringotka -- The Theatre of Jára da Cimrman -- Krejča at the Theatre Beyond the Gate -- Rokoko -- Viola -- Orfeus -- Evening Brno (Večerní Brno) -- 1968 -- VI "Normalisation" -- The Theatre on the Balustrade and What Became of Jan Grossman -- The Theatre Beyond the Gate and What Became of Otomar Krejča -- The Fates of Macháček, Radok, and Schorm -- Václav Havel, Charter 77, and the Anti-Charter -- Semafor, Drama Club, and the End of the State Theatre Studio -- Irregular Dramaturgy -- Theatre [Goose] on a String -- HaDivadlo (Theatre of the Haná Region) -- Between Dog and Wolf -- VII The Theatre and the Velvet Revolution -- Dramatis Personae -- Titles of Czech and Slovak Plays, Operas and Films -- Select Bibliography -- Notes -- Index of Names.

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