Pražské quadriennale 1987

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From: 8. 6. 1987

To: 28. 6. 1987

Volume: 6

Call #:

Programme
Programme
Photography
Photography

Venue:

Organizer: Ministerstvo kultury České republiky

Organizer: Divadelní ústav Praha

Architectonic Design: Milan Švehla

Architectonic Design: Alois Tománek

Architectonic Design: Martin Tröster

Index Item: Anton Pavlovič Čechov

Theatre architecture

Bulharsko

Bulgaria

Vystavující umělec: Ivan Bitrakov, Vystavující umělec: Michail Sokolovski, Vystavující umělec: Boris Kamilarov, Vystavující umělec: Stefan Popoff, Vystavující umělec: Věra Kolarovová, Vystavující umělec: Maria Milevová, Vystavující umělec: Alexandr Todorov, Vystavující umělec: Belčo Petrov, Vystavující umělec: Konstantin Vandalov, Vystavující umělec: Canko Hadžistojčev, Vystavující umělec: Elka Ribarovová, Vystavující umělec: Nikola Slavov, Vystavující umělec: Aneta Slavovová, Vystavující umělec: Maria Afanasjevová

Československo

Former Czechoslovakia

Vystavující umělec: Miroslav Melena, Vystavující umělec: Ivo Klimeš, Vystavující umělec: Václav Králíček, Vystavující umělec: Pavel Němeček, Vystavující umělec: Pavel Švancer, Vystavující umělec: Pavel Wieden, Vystavující umělec: Václav Voda, Vystavující umělec: Pavel Vaněček, Vystavující umělec: Martin Vrátník, Vystavující umělec: Václav Misík, Vystavující umělec: Jan Zídka, Vystavující umělec: Branislav Somora, Vystavující umělec: Stanislav Mečiar, Vystavující umělec: Daniel Prekop, Vystavující umělec: Rudolf Blaško, Vystavující umělec: Križíková, Vystavující umělec: Ürge, Vystavující umělec: Andel, Vystavující umělec: Sítková, Vystavující umělec: Marienkovič, Vystavující umělec: Tomáš Žižka, Vystavující umělec: Kapusta, Vystavující umělec: Dorotjak, Vystavující umělec: Gandl, Vystavující umělec: Kaska, Vystavující umělec: Valachovič, Vystavující umělec: Eduard Horváth, Vystavující umělec: Ivan Kočan, Vystavující umělec: Dušan Bálent, Vystavující umělec: Mikuláš Breza, Vystavující umělec: Marián Malovaný, Vystavující umělec: Milan Kotek Dipl. Ing., Vystavující umělec: Jaroslav Koza, Vystavující umělec: Karel Císař, Vystavující umělec: Hynek Bpuček, Vystavující umělec: Zdeňka Tichtrová, Vystavující umělec: Vojtech Fifik, Vystavující umělec: Ĺubica Gáliková, Vystavující umělec: Eva Spurná, Vystavující umělec: Viktoria Cvengrošová, Vystavující umělec: Virgil Droppa, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Kordík, Vystavující umělec: Mikuláš Röhrböck, Vystavující umělec: Ivan Ferdinand Zbuško, Vystavující umělec: Rastislav Janák, Vystavující umělec: Pavol Lieskovský, Vystavující umělec: Miloslav Mudrončík, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Šárocký, Vystavující umělec: Dušan Fischer

Finsko

Finland

Vystavující umělec: Mikko Hormia, Vystavující umělec: Tytti Oittinen, Vystavující umělec: Timo Hirvonen, Vystavující umělec: Soile Miettinenová, Vystavující umělec: Soile Kinnunen, Vystavující umělec: Vesa Huttunen, Vystavující umělec: Pentti Piha

Francie

France

Vystavující umělec: Guy-Claude François, Vystavující umělec: Bernard Guillaumot, Vystavující umělec: Bernard Jaunay, Vystavující umělec: Igor Hilbert, Vystavující umělec: Reichen Robert, Vystavující umělec: Aubry Ferrieux, Vystavující umělec: Jean Hugues Manoury, Vystavující umělec: Andrault, Vystavující umělec: Parat, Vystavující umělec: Guvan, Vystavující umělec: Rocco Compagnone, Vystavující umělec: Michel Commissaire, Vystavující umělec: Jean-Paul Foulet, Vystavující umělec: Jean-Louis Chassard, Vystavující umělec: Jacques Marrast, Vystavující umělec: Michel Jantzen, Vystavující umělec: Claude Jeffroy, Vystavující umělec: Philippe Joessel, Vystavující umělec: Joël Lecouturier, Vystavující umělec: Noël Napo, Vystavující umělec: Valentin Fabre, Vystavující umělec: Jean Perrottet

Japonsko

Japan

Vystavující umělec: Takahiko Yanagisawa, Vystavující umělec: Harald Deilmann, Vystavující umělec: Adolf Zotzmann, Vystavující umělec: Hidemi Ito, Vystavující umělec: Hirotumi Yoshiuchi, Vystavující umělec: Hisao Nagai, Vystavující umělec: Akikazu Ito, Vystavující umělec: Akimasa Yorimitsu, Vystavující umělec: Tatsuo Nishida, Vystavující umělec: Kenichi Tokiwa, Vystavující umělec: Chihiro Mizuuchi, Vystavující umělec: Masayuki Okubo, Vystavující umělec: Michiko Nojima, Vystavující umělec: Masami Matsuura, Vystavující umělec: Yoshio Kohno, Vystavující umělec: Akira Ikegami, Vystavující umělec: Kenji Kageyama, Vystavující umělec: Yukiya Tokuriki, Vystavující umělec: Tomas Deilmann, Vystavující umělec: Edeltraud Jansterová, Vystavující umělec: Rainer Nohl, Vystavující umělec: Joachim Schefers, Vystavující umělec: Hans Hollein, Vystavující umělec: Akitoshi Asano, Vystavující umělec: Hideki Hayashi, Vystavující umělec: Osamu Ogasawara, Vystavující umělec: Shunsuke Yamamoto, Vystavující umělec: Masaki Miyashita, Vystavující umělec: Shigenao Touma, Vystavující umělec: Yoshiaki Sono, Vystavující umělec: Keibun Sano, Vystavující umělec: Diarmuid Nash, Vystavující umělec: Kaori Kida, Vystavující umělec: Yasushi Yazawa, Vystavující umělec: Bernard Tschumi, Vystavující umělec: Luca Merlini, Vystavující umělec: Christian Biecher, Vystavující umělec: Patrick Winters, Vystavující umělec: Martyn Wiltshire, Vystavující umělec: Alexandra Villegesová, Vystavující umělec: Brigitte Hunkelerová, Vystavující umělec: Marie-Line Luquetová, Vystavující umělec: Peter Rice, Vystavující umělec: Hugh Dutton, Vystavující umělec: Daniel Commins, Vystavující umělec: Hisao Wakamatsu, Vystavující umělec: Yuri Tomohisa, Vystavující umělec: Kanno Tadashi, Vystavující umělec: Tanaami Masato

Jugoslávie

Yugoslavia

Vystavující umělec: Drago Turina

Polsko

Poland

Vystavující umělec: Andrzej Strachocki, Vystavující umělec: Maciej Krasiński, Vystavující umělec: Stanisław Kuś, Vystavující umělec: Kasper Kokczyński, Vystavující umělec: Rafael Szczepański

Rumunsko

Romania

Vystavující umělec: Romulus Feneş

Spolková republika Německo

Federal Republic of Germany

Vystavující umělec: C. F. Rave, Vystavující umělec: E. Rollenhagen, Vystavující umělec: Gerd Lindemann, Vystavující umělec: G. Grossmann, Vystavující umělec: P. Busmann, Vystavující umělec: G. Haberer, Vystavující umělec: H. Rotermund

SSSR

Soviet Union

Vystavující umělec: V. Vinogradov, Vystavující umělec: Vladilen Krasilnikov, Vystavující umělec: L. Paršin, Vystavující umělec: V. Parunakjan, Vystavující umělec: Vjačeslav Sokolov, Vystavující umělec: G. Bělov, Vystavující umělec: S. Gelfier, Vystavující umělec: Margarita Gavrilova, Vystavující umělec: A. Alexejevová, Vystavující umělec: I. Tazijev, Vystavující umělec: K. Sokolov, Vystavující umělec: T. Chramatsovová, Vystavující umělec: T. Sinicinová, Vystavující umělec: I. Marianovová, Vystavující umělec: G. Gubarev, Vystavující umělec: S. Bělov, Vystavující umělec: A. Karpenko, Vystavující umělec: I. Kluzner, Vystavující umělec: V. Jeremin

Švédsko

Sweden

Vystavující umělec: Göran Mãnsson, Vystavující umělec: Lars Bjursten, Vystavující umělec: Marianne Dahlbäcková, Vystavující umělec: Gustaf Kull, Vystavující umělec: Sandgren Torsten, Vystavující umělec: Olle Qvarnström, Vystavující umělec: Gunnar Steneby, Vystavující umělec: Ulf Hedberg, Vystavující umělec: Per Ahrbom, Vystavující umělec: Lars Fahlstein, Vystavující umělec: Nils Erik Hansson, Vystavující umělec: Hans Tirsén

Stage and costume design

Rose Werckx:

Belgium

In spite of financial difficulties which are encountered everywhere we are again participating in the Prague Quadrennial. In 1983 the French and Flemish communities had separate expositions. This time we have attempted to prepare a joint national exposition. The items we exhibit strive to provide an overall view of Belgian scenography. They include the work of both well-known stage designers and those artists who are only beginning their career. A large number of young stage designers now works in small theatrical groups which were founded in the sixtiesthroughout the country, as a counterpoint to the large permanent theatres.

While for the French part of the country stage designers are educated at the prestigious de la Cambre State Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Serge Creuz for the Flemish part of the country this type of education was available only much later. We are happy to report that now a stage and costume design curriculum is offered at Saint Lucas in Brussels and also at the Academies in Ghent and Antwerp.

Belgium

Vystavující umělec: Jacques Berwouts

Exhibit: Company

author: S. Sondheim - G. Furth, Arena 1983, d. J. Vandevelde

Exhibit: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

author: B. Brecht, Arena 1983, d. J. Vandevelde

Exhibit: The Taming of the Shrew

author: W. Shakespeare - D. Tanghe, Malpertuis Tielt 1986, d. D. Tanghe

, Vystavující umělec: John Bogaerts

Exhibit: The Tempest

author: W. Shakespeare, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg 1984, d. Z. Krauss

Exhibit: The American Clock

author: A. Miller, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg 1985, d. M. van Zundert

Exhibit: After the Miracle

author: W. Gibson, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg 1986, d. M. van Zundert

Exhibit: End of the World

author: A. Kopit, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg 1986, d. J. Bogaerts

Exhibit: The Flies

author: J.-P. Sartre, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg 1986, d. L. Madder

, Vystavující umělec: Marc Cnops

Exhibit: The Silence

author: L. Nøren, Publiekstheater Amsterdam 1986, d. K. Woudstra

, Vystavující umělec: Serge Creuz

Exhibit: The Devils of Loudun

author: K. Penderecki, Opéra de Walonie 1985, d. R. Rossius

Exhibit: Appointment of Mr. Descartes and young Pascal

author: J.-P. Miguel, Théâtre Nationale Bruxelles 1987, d. J.-C. Bresville

, Vystavující umělec: Jean-Claude De Bemels

Exhibit: In the Jungle of the Cities

author: B. Brecht, Teatre Varia 1984, d. P. Sireuil

Exhibit: Waiting for Godot

author: S. Beckett, Teatre Varia 1984, d. M. Delval

Exhibit: The Commission

author: H. Müller, Teatre Varia 1986, d. M. Dezoteux

, Vystavující umělec: Werner De Bondt

Exhibit: Stella

author: J. W. Goethe, Studio Herman Teirlinck 1986, d. J.-C. Berutti

Exhibit: Faust

author: J. W. Goethe, Studio Herman Teirlinck 1987, d. A. Louafi

Exhibit: Thing Are Not What They Seem

author: T. Bernhardt, Arca-Net 1985, d. A. Goris

, Vystavující umělec: Luk De Bruyker

Exhibit: Father Anseele

author: F. Neirinck, Teater Taptoe 1986, d. F. Neirinck

, Vystavující umělec: Luc D´Hooghe, Vystavující umělec: Rose Werckx

Exhibit: Medea Material

author: Euripides - H. Müller, Arca-Net 1984, d. De Bruycker - P. Dehert

Exhibit: Nora

author: H. Ibsen, Arca-Net 1985, d. P- Dehert

, Vystavující umělec: Hartwig Dobbertin

Exhibit: The Passage

author: R. Verheezen, Nieuw Vlaams Teater 1983, d. R. Verheezen

Exhibit: The Death of Tarelkin

author: A.V. Suchovo-KobylinReizend Volksteater, 1986, d. H. Hawemann

Exhibit: Agnes of God

author: J. Dielmeyer, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg 1986, d. R. Verheezen

Exhibit: Erik

author: G. Bomans - J. Dom, Koninklijk Jeugdteater 1983, d. M. Schillemans

Exhibit: The Incineration of Widows

author: J. Graser, Reizend Volksteater 1986, d. S. Roufaer

, Vystavující umělec: Elly Haegemansová

Exhibit: The Death of Tarelkin

author: A.V. Suchovo-Kobylin, Reizend Volksteater, 1986, d.: H. Hawemann

Exhibit: The Incineration of Widows

author: J. Graser, Reizend Volksteater 1986, d. S. Roufaer

, Vystavující umělec: Andrei Ivaneanu

Exhibit: Each In His Own Way

author: I. Pirandello, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg 1984, d. S. Roufaer

Exhibit: The Miserables

author: V. Hugo, Teatre Nationale Bruxelles 1986, d. A. Debar

, Vystavující umělec: Jerome Maeckelbergh

Exhibit: Possessed

author: A. Camus, Antigoon Merksem, 1984, d. M. Schillemans

Exhibit: The Bear and the Pasha

author: E. Scribe, Koninklijk Jeugdteater 1985, d. M. Schillemans

Exhibit: Richard III.

author: W. Shakespeare, Reizend Volksteater 1986, d. M. Schillemans

Brazílie

In a country with an area of nearly nine million km2, with a population of over 130 million inhabitants, we do not have any school that specializes in forming stage designers or theatre technical workers. Most stage designers come from courses like architecture or art and through experimenting and attempting end up specializing in the area. From the nearly 200 theatre halls existing in the country, 90 % of which in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, less than 10 % of them provide the basic requirements for major scenographic projects.

In Brazil we have very few fixed companies: only two or three groups have been able to keep together for two or three consecutive productions. To the exceptions belong The Stable Company of Repertoire (Companhia Estável de Repertório) with six productions and The Centre of Theatrical Research (Centro de Pesquisas Teatrais) with four productions. Most of the times when the production manages to keep the same group, it does not manage to keep the same stage director.

Perhaps because of all the problems and hindrances, the Brazilian stage designers have developed a certain versatility and creativity. What we are presenting at this Prague Quadrennial is the work of stage designers that belong to the same theatre company. The group is still in the establishing phases and, therefore, still unable to define its own characteristic line of work.

Brazil

Curator: José Carlos Serroni, Exhibition Manager: José Carlos Serroni, Exhibition Manager: Gianni Ratto, Vystavující umělec: Gianni Ratto

Exhibit: Cyrano of Bergerac

author: E. Rostand, Teatro Cultura Artística 1985, d. F. Rangel

, Vystavující umělec: José Carlos Serroni

Exhibit: Accidental Death of an Anarchist

author: D. Fo, Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia 1982, d. A. Abunjara

Exhibit: Xandu Quaresma

author: Ch. de Assis, Teatro Cultura Artística 1984, d. A. Stuart

Exhibit: Nostradamus

author: D. Comparato, Teatro Jardel Filho 1986 r. A. Abujanra

, Vystavující umělec: Daniela Thomas

Exhibit: Carmen with Filter

author: P. Merimée — G. Thomas, Teatro Procópio Ferreira 1986 d. G. Thomas

Bulharsko

Our exposition at the Prague Quadrennial 1987 differs significantly from our presentation in past years. The concept of our exhibit, the work of mostly young scenographers, is an expression of our motto: „The artisťs imagination seeks its implementation". The exposition is composed of ten individual sections, each of which presents one stage production The artists have attempted to show the visitor the path they themselves have taken to the theatre, in the context of various creative problems working conditions existing in various theatres, the produced drama itself and the process of mutual interaction with stage direction procedures They present not only designs, visual ideas, but also their implementation and the documentation concerning the production itself. They have attempted to capture not only the artistic, but also the organizational and technical aspects of theatrical operations. Their point of departure is the concept that a scenographer in a theatre exists only through his or her stage designs; they present their work as "small stage designs", integrated into "the large stage design" of the whole exposition.

They strive to come as close as possible to the visitor, rid him of passivity and challenge his participation in the creative process. And finally with the help of audiovisual media they want to inform the visitor of the aim of each stage design, of art in action — the essence of the theatre.

Bulgaria

Curator: Eugenia Raevová, Vystavující umělec: Silvia Bačvarova

Exhibit: A Story from Past Perfect Times

author: R Kipling, Daržaven kuklen teatar Plovdiv 1985 d. P. Pachov

, Vystavující umělec: Maria Dimanova

Exhibit: The Government Inspector

author: N. V. Gogol, Dramatičen teatar Sliven 1986, d. S. Pekarov

, Vystavující umělec: Rumen Dobrev

Exhibit: January

author: J. Radičkov, Dramatičen teatar Nikola Vapcarov Blagoevgrad 1985, d. V. Alexandrov

, Vystavující umělec: Virdžinia Dobrevová

Exhibit: January

author: J. Radičkov, Dramatičen teatar Nikola Vapcarov Blagoevgrad 1985, d. V. Alexandrov

, Vystavující umělec: Elena Ivanovová

Exhibit: The Farce of Pathelin

author: Anonymus, Dramatičen teatar Vidin 1986, . A. Ujev

, Vystavující umělec: Miglena Kasasková

Exhibit: Camino Real

author: T. Williams, VITIZ Krastio Sarafov Sofia 1984, d. E. Chalačev

, Vystavující umělec: Nevena Kavaldgieva

Exhibit: Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti

author: B. Brecht, Teatar na Narodnata armia Sofia 1986, . L. Daniel

, Vystavující umělec: Maya Petrova

Exhibit: As the French Say

author: Ch. Bojčev, Daržaven teatar Varna 1984, d. R. Abraševová

, Vystavující umělec: Chayka Petrusheva

Exhibit: Accidental Death of an Anarchist

author: D. Fo, Dramatičen teatar Salza i smiah Sofia 198,5 d. K. Spasov

, Vystavující umělec: Stefan Popoff

Exhibit: Camino Real

author: T. Williams, VITIZ Krastio Sarafov Sofia 1984, d. E. Chalačev

, Vystavující umělec: Marina Raytchinova

Exhibit: Idiots

author: B. Papazov, Dramatičen teatar Lovec 1986, d. P. Damjanov

, Vystavující umělec: Vasil Rokomanov

Exhibit: A Story from Past Perfect Times

author: R Kipling, Daržaven kuklen teatar Plovdiv 1985, d. P. Pachov

, Vystavující umělec: Asen Stojčev

Exhibit: The Snow Queen

author: J. Švarc, Dramatičen teatar Salza i smiah 1984, d. D. Stojanov

Československo

Since the last Prague Quadrennial, Czechoslovak stage design has entered a new period of creativity, which can be briefly described as a marked transition from so-called action scenography, which strived for the full interconnection between the visual aspect and individual elements of the action and function of the staging, towards a scenography of image theatre. Its marked characteristic is the pressing need to communicate and hence also to stress the socially current aspects of contemporary drama. Development trends now have a tendency to clearly formulate the image significance of space. The total meaning import of tangible space is created by stressing the metaphorical quality of the visual element as a variable and dynamic inspirator and co-player of the actor, in the time dimension. This trend of our further development is based on the work of a number of personalities, who cannot be defined as members of a specific generation, but rather by their creative approach, which makes them indispensible members of creative staging teams. It is these creative teams which at present determine the quality and future of Czechoslovak theatrical art. The rich and highly variable stratification of Czechoslovak stage design has its basic common development-determining characteristics. These include above all the comprehensive link between visual aspects on the one side and the action and the idea of the performance on the other, as well as the dynamic quality of the transformations to which they lead. In other words the mutual interconnection in time between the visual component, the idea behind the specific staging and their multi-faceted theatrical communication with the significance of the dramatic persona on the one hand and the spectator on the other.

The common ground of these new trends in Czechoslovak stage designs is a flowering of the imagination, which supports the development of the content and idea of the staging. This development of course continues in the extensive tradition of Czechoslovak stage design and underlines their most characteristic traits — their poetic and lyrical qualities.

Former Czechoslovakia

Curator: Otto Šujan, Exhibition Architect: Milan Švehla, Vystavující umělec: Tomáš Berka

Exhibit: Catch XXII

author: J. Heller, Poetický súbor Novej scény Bratislava,1986, d. S. Párnický

Exhibit: Lazaritsa

author: J. Radičkov, Štúdio Novej scény Bratislava1987, d. M. Lasica

Exhibit: Perinbaba

author: L. Feldek, Štúdio Novej scény Bratislava 1985 d. I. Svetko

Exhibit: A Man for All Seasons

author: R. Bolt, Štúdio Novej scény Bratislava 1986 . P. Haspra

, Vystavující umělec: Helena Bezáková

Exhibit: Simone Boccanegra

author: G. Verdi, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1985, d. J. Gyermek

Exhibit: Svätopluk

author: E. Suchoň, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1985, . B. Kriška

Exhibit: Christmas Eve

author: N. A. Rimskij-Korsakov, Národní divadlo Praha 1984, d. B. Kriška

Exhibit: The Magic Flute

author: W.A. Mozart, Slovenské národní divadlo Bratislava1986, d. M. Fischer

Exhibit: The Insect Play

author: J. Cikker, Slovenské národné divadla Bratislava 1987, d. B. Kriška

Exhibit: Platonov

author: A. P. Czechov, DSKN Praha 1974, . O. Krejča

, Vystavující umělec: Jozef Ciller

Exhibit: The Man Between the Wars

author: K. Horák, Divadlo Slovenského národného povstania Martin 1984, d. R. Polák

Exhibit: Pity She's a Whore

author: J. Ford, Hrvatsko narodno kazalište Zagreb 1984, . G. Paro

Exhibit: The Bride from the Mountains

author: F. Švantner — R. Polák, Divadlo Slovenského národného povstania Martin 1986, d. R. Polák

, Vystavující umělec: Peter Čanecký

Exhibit: The Tempest

author: W. Shakespeare, Divadlo J. G. Tajovského Bánská Bystrica 1982, d. M. Olha

Exhibit: Twelfth Night

author: W. Shakespeare, Divadlo J. G. Tajovského Banská Bystrica — Zvolen 1986, . M. Oľha

Exhibit: Two Foscaries

author: G. Verd, Štátne divadlo Košice 1987, d. M. Chudovský

Exhibit: Rigoletto

author: G. Verdi, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1987

, Vystavující umělec: Milan Čorba

Exhibit: The Dresser

author: R. Harwood, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1985, . M. Pietor

Exhibit: The Good Woman of Setzuan

author: B. Brecht, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1986, . V. Strnisko

, Vystavující umělec: Jan Dušek

Exhibit: War and Peace

author: L. N. Tolstoj, Divadlo J. K. Tyla Plzeň 1986, d. O. Ševčík

Exhibit: Long Day's Journey into Night

author: E. O'Neill, Jihočeské divadlo České Budějovice 1983, d. K. Taberyová

, Vystavující umělec: Milan Ferenčík

Exhibit: Spring Awakening

author: F. Wedekind, Divadlo Andreja Bagara Nitra 1983, d. J. Bednárik

Exhibit: Perikles

author: W. Shakespeare, Divadlo Andreja Bagara Nitra 1984, d. J. Bednárik

Exhibit: The Woman

author: E. Band, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1985, d. P. Mikulík

Exhibit: Wozzeck

author: A. Berg, Slovenské národní divadlo Bratislava 1986, d. M. Fischer

Exhibit: The Magic Flute

author: W. A. Mozart, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1986, d. M. Fischer

Exhibit: Ghosts

author: H. Ibsen, Divadlo A. Bagára 1985, d. J. Bednárik

, Vystavující umělec: Mona Hafsahlová

Exhibit: They Shoot the Horses, Don´t They?

author: M. McCoy, Divadlo pre děti a mládež Trnava 1985 d. J. Nvota

Exhibit: Our Friend René

author: M. Lasica - J. Satinský, Divadlo pre děti a mládež Trnava 1986, d. J. Nvota

, Vystavující umělec: Alena Hoblová

Exhibit: A Midsummer Night's Dream

author: W. Shakespeare, Státní divadlo Brno1984, d. L. Ogoun

, Vystavující umělec: Štefan Hudák

Exhibit: A Horse for the Dictator

author: M. Karim, Ukrajinské národné divadlo Prešov 1982, d. J. Sisák

Exhibit: Shine, Shine My Star

author: J. Dunskij — V. Frid — A. Mitta, Státné divadlo Košice 1982, d. E. Gurtler

Exhibit: Playback

author: M. Kočan, Štátne divadlo Košice 1984, . E. Gurtler

Exhibit: The Masters

author: V. Šikula, Divadlo J. Záborského Prešov 1984, d. E. Gurtler

Exhibit: Landing Area Unknown

author: V. Gubarev, Štátne divadlo Košice 1984, d. M. Procházka

Exhibit: Pinocchio

author: C. Collodi, Divadlo J. Záborského Prešov 1985, d. L. Midriak

Exhibit: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

author: D. Wasserman, Štátne divadlo Košice 1985, . M. Procházka

Exhibit: The Government Inspector

author: N. V. Gogol, Divadlo J. Záborského Prešov 1987, . L. Midriak

Exhibit: The Cabaret

author: H. Prince — J. Kander, Štátne divadlo Košice 1987 d. M. Procházka

Exhibit: Collection Depot

author: D. Kovačevič, Divadlo J. Záborského Prešov 1987 d. M. Oľha

, Vystavující umělec: Josef Jelínek

Exhibit: Nabucco

author: G. Verdi, Státní divadlo Brno 1985, d. V. Věžník

Exhibit: Betrothal in the Convent

author: S. Prokofjev, Národní divadlo Praha 1986, d. L. Štros

Exhibit: Macbeth

author: W. Shakespeare, Státní divadlo Brno 1987, d. V. Věžník

Exhibit: The Shoemaker´s Fair

author: J. K. Tyl, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. V. Hudeček

Exhibit: Armida

author: A. Dvořák, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. L. Štros

Exhibit: Peer Gynt

author: E. Grieg, Státní divadlo Ostrava 1987, d. A. Janíček

, Vystavující umělec: Zbyněk Kolář

Exhibit: The Night of the Shepherds

author: J. Bouček, Národní divadlo Praha 1983, d. V. Hudeček

Exhibit: Greek Passion Plays

author: B. Martinů, Národní divadlo Praha 1984, d. V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Mariana

author: V. Felix, Státní divadlo Brno 1985, . I. Hylas

Exhibit: The Labyrinth

author: J. Hanuš, Národní divadlo Praha 1985, ch. M. Kůra

Exhibit: The Day that Outlasts a Century

author: Č. Ajtamov, Divadlo na Vinohradech 1986, . J. Dudek

Exhibit: Cyrano of Bergerac

author: E. Rostand, Divadlo na Vinohradech Praha 1986, . J. Dudek

Exhibit: The Shoemakers' Fair

author: J. K. Tyl, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, r. V. Hudeček

Exhibit: Rafani

author: J. Jílek, Divadlo na Vinohradech Praha 1985, . Z. Mika

Exhibit: Atlantida

author: K. Horký, Státní divadlo Brno 1983, d. I. Hylas

, Vystavující umělec: Jarmila Konečná

Exhibit: The Day that Outlasts a Century

author: Č. Ajtamov, Divadlo na Vinohradech 1986, d. J. Dudek

, Vystavující umělec: Jan Konečný

Exhibit: Zoya's Apartment

author: M. Bulgakov, Satirické divadlo Večerní Brno 1985, d. J. Morávek

Exhibit: The House Full of Phantoms

author: Collective work, Divadlo Na Provázku 1985, d. P. Scherhaufer

, Vystavující umělec: Jaroslav Malina

Exhibit: Love's Labour's Lost

author: W. Shakespeare, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. K. Kříž

Exhibit: Hamlet

author: W. Shakespeare, Východočeské divadlo Pardubice 1984, d. J. Balaďa

Exhibit: Don Juan

autor: Molière, Divadlo pracujících Gottwaldov 1985 r. I. Balaďa

Exhibit: A Midsummer Nighťs Dream

author: W. Shakespeare, Městská divadla pražská 1984, d. K. Kříž

Exhibit: Intrigue and Love

author: F. Schiller, Divadlo pracujících Gottwaldov 1983, . I. Balada

Exhibit: Bertoldo

author: M. Durši, Realistické divadlo Z. Nejedlého Praha 1985, d. M. Krobot

Exhibit: The Baron in the Branches

author: I. Calvino, Městská divadla pražská 1985, d. K. Kříž

Exhibit: Vassa

author: M. Gorkij, Národní divadlo Praha 1986, d. M. Krobot

Exhibit: The Insulted and Injured

author: F. M. Dostojevskij — J. Bouček, Západočeské divadlo Cheb 1984, . J. Fréhar

Exhibit: The Paw

author: H. Barker, Státní divadlo Z. Nejedlého — Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem 1985, d. M. Krobot

Exhibit: Palm lines

author: V. Šukšin, Realistické divadlo Z. Nejedlého Praha 1985, d. M. Krobot

Exhibit: Jenufa

author: G. Preissová, Realistické divadlo Z. Nejedlého Praha 1986, . J. Fréhar

, Vystavující umělec: Miroslav Melena

Exhibit: Cover Me With Graves

author: A. Rebula, Teatro stabile sloveno Trieste 1983, d. J. Babio

Exhibit: The Crocodile

author: F. M. Dostojevskij, Divadlo J. Wolkra — Studio Ypsilon Praha 1986, d. A. Goldflam

Exhibit: Mathew the Honest

author: L. Klíma — A. Dvořák, Divadlo J. Wolkra — Studio Ypsilon Praha 1985, d. J. Schmid

Exhibit: The Devil Who Promised the Blue From the Sky

author: M. Ghelderode, Divadlo J. Wolkra — Studio Ypsilon Praha 1986, . J. Schmid

Exhibit: Schweik

autJor: J. Hašek, Pozorište na Terazijama Beograd 1987, d. J. Řeřicha

, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Nývlt

Exhibit: Pelléas and Mélisanda

author: C. Debussy, Národní divadlo Praha 1985, d. V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Armida

author: A. Dvořák, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. L. Štros

, Vystavující umělec: Albert Pražák

Exhibit: The Government Inspector

author: N. V. Gogol, Krajské divadlo Příbram 1984, d. A. Dvořák

Exhibit: One Month in the Country

author: I. S. Turgeněv, Divadlo na Vinohradech Praha 1985, d. J. Novák

, Vystavující umělec: Josef Svoboda

Exhibit: Antigona

author: C. Orf, Opernhaus Zurich 1983, d. A. Everding

Exhibit: Joan of Arc at the Stake

author: A. Honegger, Opernhaus Zurich 1983, d. C. H. Drese

Exhibit: Salome

author: R. Strauss, Opera Montreal 1985, . V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Idomeneo

author: W. A. Mozart, National Arts Centre Ottawa 1981, d. V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Swan Lake

author: P. I. Čajkovskij, Teatro alla Scala Milano 1982, d. N. Beriozoff

Exhibit: Macbeth

author: G. Verdi, Opéra Montreal 1983, . V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Professor Unrat

author: M. Constant — R. Petit, Deutsche Oper Berlin 1985, . R. Petit

Exhibit: The Brigand Ballad

author: V. Kašlík, Národní divadlo Praha 1986, . V. Kašlík

Exhibit: Twelfth Night

author: W. Shakespeare, Schlosstheater Wien 1987, . N. Windisch-Spoerk

Exhibit: Macbeth

author: G. Verdi, Opernhaus Zurich 1985, d. G. Asagaroff

Exhibit: Nabucco

author: G. Verdi, Operahaus Zürich 1985, d. J. Dexter

Exhibit: Jenufa

author: L. Janáček, Opera Marseille 1986, . E. Schorm

Exhibit: Dead Souls

author: N. V. Gogol, Théátre de la Liberté Paris 1983, . M. Ulusoy

Exhibit: Ghetto

author: J. Sobol, Det Norske Teatret 1986, d. I. Semtová

Exhibit: Steps

author: B. McDonald, Queen Elisabeth Theatre Vancouver 1986, d. B. McDonald

Exhibit: Cat in Boots

author: Ch. Perrault - R. Petit, Palais de Congrés Paris 1985, . R. Petit

Exhibit: Odysseus

author: E. Schorm — J. Kučera — J. Smetana — M. Kocáb, Národní divadlo — Laterna magika Praha1987, d. E. Schorm — J. Kučera

Exhibit: Six Characters in Search of an Author

author: L. Pirandello, l´Atelier Théâtral de Louvain-la-Neuve 1984, d. A. Delcampe

Exhibit: Break of Noon

author: P. Claudel, l´Atelier Théâtral de Louvain-la-Neuve 1984, . A. Delcampe

Exhibit: The Talkative Slug

author: J. Pauer, Národní divadlo — Laterna magika Praha 1984, . B. Pojar

Exhibit: Kaťa Kabanová

author: L. Janáček, Národní divadlo Praha 1986, d. K. Jernek

Exhibit: Oidipus rex

author: I. Stravinskij, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. E. Schorm

Exhibit: Adriana

author: B. Martinů, Národní divadlo Praha 1987, d. E. Schorm

Exhibit: The Seagull

author: A. P. Čechov, Stockholms Stadtsteater 1969, d. O. Krejča

, Vystavující umělec: Jan Vančura

Exhibit: Mignon

author: A. Thomas, Státní divadlo F. X. Šaldy Liberec 1984, . P. Zahradníček

Exhibit: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

author: Ch. Marlowe, Státní divadlo F. X. Šaldy Liberec 1985, . P. Palouš

Exhibit: Rodelinda

author: G. F. Hándel, Státní divadlo Brno 1985, . A. Vaňáková

Exhibit: The Magic Flute

author: W. A. Mozart, Státní divadlo F. X. Šaldy Liberec 1986, d. O. Mrňák

, Vystavující umělec: Ladislav Vychodil

Exhibit: Jenufa

author: L. Janáček, Slovenské národné divadlo Bratislava 1986, . B. Kriška

Exhibit: Dalibor

author: B. Smetana, Slovenské národní divadlo Bratislava 1982, d. M. Fischer

Exhibit: Comedy of Errors

author: W. Shakespeare, Concordia University Montreal 1984

Exhibit: Crime and Punishment

author: F M Dostojevskij, Stockholms Stadtsteater 1982, d. J. Hakanson

Exhibit: Romeo and Juliet

author: W. Shakespeare, Det Norske Teatret Oslo 1985, d. P. Lokkeberg

Exhibit: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

author: R. L. Stevenson, San Diego Repertory Theatre 1986, d. D. Jacobs

Exhibit: Eugen Onegin

author: P. I. Čajkovskij, Státní divadlo Brno 1982, d. V. Věžník

, Vystavující umělec: Ján Zavarský

Exhibit: The Chameleon

autor: M. Štědroň, Státní divadlo - Divadlo Na Provázku Brno 1984, r. P. Scherhaufer

Exhibit: Old Woman or Tacet

author: F. Halas — A. Ambrová, Státní divadlo — Divadlo na provázku Brno 1985, d. P. Scherhaufer

Exhibit: The Simple Spirit

author: Voltaire, Divadlo pre děti a mládež Trnava 1985, . B. Uhlár

, Vystavující umělec: Karel Zmrzlý

Exhibit: Summer and Smoke

author: T. Williams, Divadlo bratří Mrštíků Brno1983, d. P. Nebeský

Exhibit: Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

author: A. N. Ostrovskij, Divadlo bratří Mrštíků Brno 1983, . M. Hynšt

Exhibit: War and Peace

author: L. N. Tolstoj, Divadlo bratří Mrštíků 1985, d. P. Rímský

Čína

According to recent statistics, there are 317 kinds of traditional classic operas in China. Although they greatly differ in their music and even the language they use in the fields of the stage structure, props, stage costume and make-up they are basically the same; none of them use any scenery.

For this exhibition we have selected some stage costumes, masks patterns of the make-up from the well known Peking opera and other traditional operas. This stage art was created by unknown folk artists in embroidery and by players during the past hundred years.

Modern Chinese stage art first appeared in 1907, but it was Europeanized and Japanized. From then until 1949, spoken drama and Europeanized opera were extremely different from the traditional opera. But the great development of the modern stage art has occurred only since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The Chinese Government invested large sums of money to build and rebuild theatres, and now all theatrical groups have professional stage designers of their own. In order to train more able people, stage art departments were set up at the universities of Peking and Shanghai. With more and more international cultural exchange and various theatrical performances taking place, since 1976 stage art has become more varied. But before 1975, the form used was basically only realistic.

By looking at our exhibits, you can see how the style of our various performances has changed. We are only beginning to adopt varied and different methods and styles, from the realistic to the abstract.

China

Curator: Chang Li, Vystavující umělec: Liyi Chen

Exhibit: Queen for a Single Night

Ensemble of Qianju Traditional Theatre Guizhou 1985, d. Chen Liyi

, Vystavující umělec: Kedi Cui

Exhibit: Amadeus

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artistique populaire a Shanghai / Shanghai People's Art Theatre 1984

Exhibit: The Taming of the Shrew

author: W. Shakespeare, Shanghai People's Art Theatre 1986, d. B. Goss

, Vystavující umělec: Jiasheng Ding

Exhibit: The Legend of the Nephrite Bracelet

author: Ji Naixian, The Musical Drama Theatre in Shanghai 1984, . Xue Mu

, Vystavující umělec: Shixiang Du

Exhibit: The Family

author: Cao Yu, The Shanghai People's Art Theatre 1984, d. Huang Zuolin

, Vystavující umělec: Silian Fan

Exhibit: The Magic Boat

author: Lao She, The Chinese Art Theatre for Children 1986, d. Shi Meiming

, Vystavující umělec: Dayou Guo

Exhibit: The Nymphe Luo Shen

author: Qi Rushan — Xu Jichuan, National Peking Opera 1984, d. Mei Baojiu

, Vystavující umělec: Jiyang Han

Exhibit: Equus

autor: P. Shaffer, Shanghai People's Art Theatre 1986, d. Chen Zaili

, Vystavující umělec: Xiyu Han

Exhibit: Death of a Salesman

author: A. Miller, The Peking People's Art Theatre 1983, d. A. Miller

, Vystavující umělec: Miaosheng Hu

Exhibit: Titus Andronicus

author: W. Shakespeare, Shanghai Theatrical Academy 1986, d. Xu Qiping

, Vystavující umělec: Shan Hua

Exhibit: Skating-rink

author: Lin Zhong, Shaoxing Traditional Theatre Ning De 1985, d. Mao Zhilian

, Vystavující umělec: Quigze Huang

Exhibit: Stories Connected with Weddings and Funerals

author: Liu Jinyun, Peking People's Art Theatres 1984 d. Lin Zhaohua

, Vystavující umělec: Tian Lan

Exhibit: The Dance of Drums in Shenyang

author: Men Wenyuan, Shenyang Art Ensemble 1986, d. Bai Shumei

, Vystavující umělec: Faliang Li

Exhibit: Yu Laosi and Zhang Ernu

author: Lu Dengxia, Huangmei Traditional Régional Theatre in the Hubei province 1986, d. Zhou Wenyao

, Vystavující umělec: Gongmu Li

Exhibit: The Merry Widow

author: F. Lehár, Musical Theatre of the Liaoning province 1986, d. Liu Xiting — Liu Bo

, Vystavující umělec: Chang Li

Exhibit: The Wilderness

author: Cao Yu, Centrál Theatrical Academy Peking 1983, d. Zhao Zhicheng

, Vystavující umělec: Keyu Li

Exhibit: Othello

author: W. Shakespeare, Experimental Theatre of Peking Opera 1983, . Zheng Bixian

Exhibit: At the Source

author: Jiang Zuhui, Chinese Ballet Ensemble 1984, d. Jiang Zuhui

, Vystavující umělec: Rulan Li

Exhibit: The Genius and the Madman

author: Zhao Yaomin, Youth Theatrical Ensemble in Shanghai 1986, d. Du Yeqiu

, Vystavující umělec: Suen Li

Exhibit: The Fragrant Lily

author: Zhong Lin, Shanghai Ensemble of the Dance Theatre 1984, d. Zhong Lin — Cheng Jianmin

, Vystavující umělec: Yuansheng Liu

Exhibit: King Oedipus

author: Sofokles, Central Theatrical Academy Peking 1986, d. Luo Jinlin

, Vystavující umělec: Wei Lu

Exhibit: A Story from the Time of the Three Empires

author: Zhou Shushan, Drama Theatre Harbin 1986, . Chen Li

, Vystavující umělec: Shounian Ma

Exhibit: A Dance About Thanka Pictures

author: Bangmo Rolpa, A-Ba Tibet Ensemble in the Sichuan province 1986, d. Bangmo Rolpa

, Vystavující umělec: Wenhai Ma

Exhibit: Desire Under the Elms

author: E. O'Neill, Drama Ensemble Shenyang 1986, d. Zhang Fuchen

, Vystavující umělec: Yuzhuo Mei

Exhibit: The Resolute Woman

author: A. Arbuzov, Artistic Ensemble Dalian 1986, d. Gao Jie

, Vystavující umělec: Mudong Qi

Exhibit: King Lear

author: W. Shakespeare, Centrál Theatrical Academy in Peking 1986, d. Ran Jie

Exhibit: Song of the Chinese Revolution

author: Lu Peng — Qiao Yu, The Chinese Révolution Choir 1984, d. Lu Peng

, Vystavující umělec: Gao Shen

Exhibit: The Peony Pavilion

author: Tang Xianzu, Kunqu Traditional Theatre in Shanghai 1985, d. Hong Mo

, Vystavující umělec: Yaoding Shen

Exhibit: The Prince and the Pauper

author: M. Twain, Chinese Art Theatre for Children 1985, d. Shang Hongyou

, Vystavující umělec: Liangji Shi

Exhibit: Brief Stories from Deep Forests

author: Sung Jiewen

, Vystavující umělec: Shifeng Su

Exhibit: The Queen from Hanwen

author: Hu Yue, Yueju Traditional Theatre in Shanghai 1985, d. Hu Yue

, Vystavující umělec: Zhongping Tan

Exhibit: Nine Songs

author: Cheng Yun, The Song and Dance Theatre Wuhan 1985, d. Cheng Yun

, Vystavující umělec: Jihou Wang

Exhibit: King Lear

author: W. Shakespeare, People's Art Theatre Liaoning 1986, d. Li Moran

, Vystavující umělec: Linyou Wang

Exhibit: Turandot

autor: G. Puccini, Boston Opera Company 1983, r. Sarah Caldwellová

, Vystavující umělec: Mingxu Wang

Exhibit: Liang Shanbo & Zhuyingtai

author: Li Yengzhong, Dance Theatre of the Liaoning province 1984, d. Zhang Huli

, Vystavující umělec: Peisen Wang

Exhibit: The Three Ladies

author: A Jia — Qin Jin, Northern Traditional Kunqu Theatre 1984, d. A Jia

, Vystavující umělec: Ren Wang

Exhibit: The City in the Water

author: Anbe Kimizo, Central Theatrical Academy in Peking, d. Ishizawa Hide

, Vystavující umělec: Wujun Wang

Exhibit: A Dream from Handan

author: Tang Xianzu, Musical Theatre Jiangxi 1986, d. Liu Anqi

, Vystavující umělec: Yuncheng Wang

Exhibit: The Souls of Statues of the Qin Dynasty

author: Xuan Hong, Song and Dance Ensemble Xian 1984, d. Li Shufen

, Vystavující umělec: Dalun Xing

Exhibit: Days in the KIngdom of Heaven

author: Yang Hansheng, Central Theatrical Academy in Peking 1983, d. He Zhian

, Vystavující umělec: Jiangang Xu

Exhibit: Fly, Petrel

author: Shi Lu: Drama Theatre Qingdao 1985, d. Shi Lu

, Vystavující umělec: Weixing Xu

Exhibit: The Black Stallion

author: Luo Jianfan, Shanghai Theatrical Academy 1986, d. Chen Mingzheng

, Vystavující umělec: Dianjie Xue

Exhibit: The Visit of a Dead Man with the Living

author: Liu Shugang, Central Experimental Theatre 1985, d. Wen Xingyu

, Vystavující umělec: Xiumin Yan

Exhibit: The First Emperor of the Qing Dynasty

author: Huo Da, Peking People's Art Theatre 1986, d. Lan Tienye

, Vystavující umělec: Lu Yi

Exhibit: The Boat Sails to Sea

autho:. Tang Meng, Fujian Theatre 1984, d. Lin Ming

, Vystavující umělec: Jingxin Zhang

Exhibit: Endless Longing in the Depths of Palaces

author: Feng Baiming, Dance Ensemble Xiangtan 1986, d. Hu Xiangguang

, Vystavující umělec: Guoliang Zhao

Exhibit: The Story of Da Yu

author: Li Qun — Xie Lierong, Shanghai Dance Theatre 1986, d. Li Qun — Xie Lierong

, Vystavující umělec: Jiapei Zhao

Exhibit: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

author: B. Brecht, Art Theatre of Chinese Youth 1985, d. Chen Rong

, Vystavující umělec: Yingmian Zhao

Exhibit: The Tragedy of a Zhao Family Orphan

author: Huang Zhongjiang, Pekingský filmový institut 1987, d. Ma Jingwu

, Vystavující umělec: Tong Zhong

Exhibit: Dance and Music in Quici

author: Yiblayinjiang, Song and Dance Ensemble of the Xinjiang province 1983, d. Wang Xiaoyun

, Vystavující umělec: Benyi Zhou

Exhibit: Twelfth Night

author: W. Shakespeare, Shanghai Traditional Yueju Theatre 1986, d. Hu Weimin

Exhibit: Golden Yaksha

author: Wei Qi — Hong Ye, Shanghai Theatrical Academy 1985, d. Chen Maolin

Exhibit: An Inspector Calls

author: J. B. Pristley, Shanghai Theatrical Academy 1984, d. Qiu Shihui

, Vystavující umělec: Zhang Zhu

Exhibit: Six People in Search of Hope

author: Jing Cheng — Wei Zhong, People's Art Theatre Tianjin 1986, d. Ding Xiaoping

Dánsko

New theatre concepts are rapidly developing from visual arts, dance and space theatre.

You could divide stage designs into two categories, those illustrating the manuscript and those that use it as a basis for visual abstraction. Illustrating the manuscript seems to work best with older plays, while abstraction is most successful with modern plays. Classical writers, however, evokes an equal amount of interest at conventional as well as alternative Danish stages.

Denmark

Vystavující umělec: Kirsten Dehlholm, Vystavující umělec: Peter De Neergaard, Vystavující umělec: Aase Engström, Vystavující umělec: Ronnie Engström, Vystavující umělec: Svend Hangaard, Vystavující umělec: Henrik Lausen, Vystavující umělec: Inga Lyngbyeová, Vystavující umělec: Sture Pik

Finsko

In Finland the theatre is a traditionally very beloved art and in recent years an interest in it has continued to grow.

Under these circumstances the professions of scenic designers and costume designers have become more valued and there is an increased interest in them. Among the problems our scenographers face is periphery location of our country, which makes it difficult to maintain foreign contacts and exert an influence.

On the other hand we have in Finland a strong tradition of design, which also influences stage and costume art.

Among our most difficult problems and at the same time the source of the greatest demand for our scenographs during these last few years are the new theatre buildings and their often too big stages, which are not always built according to the wishes of theatre performers. The development of theatrical lighting is one of the most important aspects of a scenographer´s work hand in Finland greater stress on this area is now only beginning. However, the Theatre Academy has forge ahead and since the autumn 1986 a four year course for the education of

light and sound designers are offered there.

The Theatre Academy also has a department for completing theatre education, which offers numerous annual short term courses both for set and costume designers and for technical personnel. For example in the spring of 1986 ten highly experienced costume designers took part in teaching ten week courses.

Finland

Vystavující umělec: Riina Ahonen, Vystavující umělec: Maija Pekkanen, Vystavující umělec: Kaija Salaspurová, Vystavující umělec: Liisi Tandefelt

Francie

On the basic of his experience of forty years, Jean-Louis Barrault has decided to build a theatre where the stage and the seating area share a common space which reminds us of an arena — the stage is not separated from the audience by a proscenium arch. He has asked the stage designers from the Rond-Point Theatre to create ever new scenographie approaches which will utilize this highly original space, as well as the nature of the play to be staged. Also a second, small, angular

auditorium provides opportunities for stage design experiments, above all by Simone Benmussa and Jean-Pierre Granval.

The mutual interaction of space stage design creativity in the productions of the Renaud-Barrault Company have also led to particularly interesting lighting. Yannis Kokkos, who undoubtedly is the most outstanding personality of French stage design in recent years, has developed experiences of this type at the Palace Chaillot, in collaboration with Antoine Vitez its director. It was also he, who within the framework of a variable theatrical space has defined the seating area and its decorations as a component of the stage designs, which should be an extension, in harmony with the staging concept. In order to provide a more complete view of his designs we have included some of his other work into our exposition, which he produced for various stages throughout Europe.

France

Vystavující umělec: Yannis Kokkos

Exhibit: The Seagull

A. P. CzechovThéâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, 1984, director: A. Vitez

, Vystavující umělec: Georges Wakhévitch, Vystavující umělec: Dominique Borgová, Vystavující umělec: Agostino Pace

Exhibit: My Faust

Atelier théâtral de Louvain - compagn Renaud-Barrault, Louvain, 1987, director: P. Franck

, Vystavující umělec: Roberto Platé, Vystavující umělec: Paule Sandovalová-Steinová, Vystavující umělec: Jacques Schmidt, Vystavující umělec: Emmanuel Peduzzi, Vystavující umělec: Antoni Taulé, Vystavující umělec: Ghislain Uhry

Island

This is the first time Iceland is represented at the Prague Quadrennial. A definitive history of Icelandic theatre only goes back some two or three hundred years, and unlike the rich tradition of storytelling, evidence for performances before the early part of the 18t h century is scant. Students at the Cathedral school in the south of the country, at Skálholt, began performing an annual ritual in the 18t h century. The students used a raised platform without scenery and the performance consisted for

the most part of a satirical speech. This, however, led to the advent of Icelandic drama, as by 1790 the festivities included the performance of a short satirical play or comedy. Iceland was a Danish colony at the time and eventually the authorities found these activities offensive and banned them. The ban was finally lifted in 1820 and when the school moved to Reykjavík in 1846, the students' annual performances began reaching a wider audience. Reykjavík was only a small town at the time, but amateur dramatic societies were soon established and plays were

regularly performed in both Danish and Icelandic.

During the latter half of the 19th century, the theatre became the most popular form of entertainment, a status it still retains. The chief exponent of the theatre at the time was the painter Sigurdur Gudmundsson, who single-handedly revolutionized Icelandic theatre. Realizing its potential against foreign oppression, and this eventually led him to express the need for a national stage from which the people could be enlightened and made aware of their national identity. Gudmundsson became the first stage designer and can also be considered the first director, since he frequently used to arrange the actors to create a tableaux. His settings usually depicted an Icelandic landscape through the use of a painted backdrop and flats, while interiors were made from painted flats. Gudmundsson was also the first to use make-up on his actors as a means for artistic expression. Gudmundsson was a romantic, both as an artist and visionary, and his ideal was that Iceland will have a national drama created from folklore. He thus prompted poets to write plays from folklore, suggesting that the craft be learned by translating great works, such as the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere.

In spite of Gudmundssoďs untimely death in 1874, his influence was evident well into this century, in playwriting as well as in scenery. When the Reykjavík Theatre Company was established in 1897, the aim was to secure the growth of Icelandic drama and to raise the standard of productions. True to Gudmundssoďs ideals, the company presented a large number of new Icelandic plays, mostly neoromantic in vein, until 1920, with scenery in Gudmundssoďs style. Until 1950 the company managed to gradually raise standards, recruiting the first professional actors, who arrived on the scene from training abroad during the twenties and thirties.

The existence of the Reykjavík Theatre Company was threatened in 1950 with the opening of the new National Theatre, since nearly all the actors were recruited for the new theatre. A handful of idealists decided to preserve and carry on in competition with the National Theatre. The National Theatre was the realization of Gudmundssoďs dreams, his disciples having fought for it for almost half a century. Gudmundssoďs influence was evident in the romanticism and nationalism of the first productions, but this was probably out of respect for his example and not part of the struggle for independence, because Iceland had already become a republic in 1944.

It was not until the 1960s and 1970s that experimentation with new styles in scenery began. Those decades saw a renaissance in dramatic writing and new Icelandic plays became the norm rather than the exception. A number of young designers worked in impressionism, realism, expressionism and even close to surrealism. All in all, the last 25 years have proved fruitful in Icelandic theatre and scenic artists have met the challenge with high quality and fine skill, and their solutions have been arrived at through adventurous experimentation with colour, materials

and form.

Iceland

Vystavující umělec: Gretar Reynisson, Vystavující umělec: Una Catherine Collins, Vystavující umělec: Gerla, Vystavující umělec: Gudrún Sigrídur Haraldsdóttir, Vystavující umělec: Sigurjon Johansson, Vystavující umělec: Steinthor Sigurdsson, Vystavující umělec: Thorunn Sigridur Thorgrimsdottir, Vystavující umělec: Messíana Tómasdóttir

Japonsko

The Japan Stage and TV Designers Association, JASTA, was founded in 1958 for the purpose of promoting artistic improvement, encouraging members' mutual aid, and establishing members' social status. As the nationwide organization for stage and TV artists in Japan, we now have 380 members. Throughout the year, we perform a variety of activities with great emphasis upon exhibitions. Since the last Prague Quadrennial 1983, we have held the following: the 1984 Tokyo International Stage Arts Exhibition, the 1985 Contemporary British Stage Arts Exhibition, the 1985 l'st overseas JASTA Exhibition in Peking and Shanghai, the 1985 10th JASTA Biennale, and the 1986 l l t h JASTA Biennale. The experience we had in China was significant, and we hope to continue to associate

with foreign artists through exhibitions for mutual understanding. At this Prague Quadrennial 1987, Japan will participate in the three sections: the National, Theme and Architecture section. The 26 participants for the National section were chosen from the entire membership of JASTA including TV artists. These artists energetically express contemporary Japanese theatre space.

Chekhov, who was chosen for the Prague Quadrennial 1987 theme, is familiar in Japan. In the history of performing foreign plays in the Japanese language in Japan, the modern Japanese theatre has developed along with the history of performing Chekhov. In theme section Part 1, we introduce the history of Chekhov performances in the past; in Part 2, we introduce the performance variety of Chekhov in current theatres: each includes productions by ten artists.

In the Architecture section, we introduce the five productions which include the first and subsequent prizes at the 1986 Architectural Competition for the new National Theatre in Tokyo. With this exhibition, we hope we can consistently introduce contemporary theatre art activities in Japan.

Japan

Vystavující umělec: Mitsuru Ishii, Vystavující umělec: Shigeaki Tsuchiya, Vystavující umělec: Yasuhiro Mihara, Vystavující umělec: Ben Uchiyama, Vystavující umělec: Tomiko Kato, Vystavující umělec: Shigeo Kawamori, Vystavující umělec: Takehisa Magofuku, Vystavující umělec: Hachiro Nakajima, Vystavující umělec: Senkichi Uchiyama, Vystavující umělec: Kenji Nemoto, Vystavující umělec: Setsu Asakura, Vystavující umělec: Keiko Hoshino, Vystavující umělec: Katsumi Kishii

Exhibit: Mumyoh

Y. HoriiYomiury Hall, 1985, director: K. Murase

, Vystavující umělec: Yoshiko Kunishima

Exhibit: Rusalka

A. DvořákArchaic Hall, 1987, director: M. Matuyama

, Vystavující umělec: Shitomi Murakami, Vystavující umělec: Sachiko Nagase, Vystavující umělec: Yoko Odagiriová

Exhibit: King Lear

Nagoya Art and Creation centre, Nagoya, 1987, director: S. Uchiyama

, Vystavující umělec: Yukio Takahashi, Vystavující umělec: Kenshi Urakami, Vystavující umělec: Yasunori Yoshimiya

Jugoslávie

Yugoslavia

Vystavující umělec: Geroslav Zarić, Vystavující umělec: Miodrag Tabački, Vystavující umělec: Branko Kostovski, Vystavující umělec: Slavica Lalicki-Posavec, Vystavující umělec: Vladimir Marenić, Vystavující umělec: Dorian Sokolić

Exhibit: Witchhunt

Hrvatsko narodno kazaliště, Split, 1985, director: V. Perkovič

, Vystavující umělec: Mihajlo Simidrijević, Vystavující umělec: Drago Turina, Vystavující umělec: Milanka Berberović, Vystavující umělec: Miroslav Bilač, Vystavující umělec: Miroslav-Bata Blagojević, Vystavující umělec: Ružica Nenadović-Sokolić, Vystavující umělec: Slobodan Perišić, Vystavující umělec: Milica Radovanović, Vystavující umělec: Zoran Ristić, Vystavující umělec: Živojin Trajanović, Vystavující umělec: Ljubica Wagnerová, Vystavující umělec: Gjorgi Zdravev, Vystavující umělec: Aleksandar Zlatovič, Vystavující umělec: Zora Živadinović-Davidović

Kuba

Cuba

Vystavující umělec: Manuel Barreiro, Vystavující umělec: Eduardo Arocha, Vystavující umělec: Salvador Fernández, Vystavující umělec: Gabriel Hierrezuelo, Vystavující umělec: Zenen Calero Medina, Vystavující umělec: Nieves Laferté, Vystavující umělec: Calixto Manzanares Álvarez, Vystavující umělec: Guillermo Mediavilla

Exhibit: The Inspector Calls

J. B. PriestleyEl Sotano, Havana, 1984, director: M. Montesco

, Vystavující umělec: María Elena Molinet, Vystavující umělec: Ricardo Reymena, Vystavující umělec: Severino Rodríguez, Vystavující umělec: Jesús Ruíz Rodríguez, Vystavující umělec: Leandro Soto Ortíz

Maďarsko

In the seventies the renewal of Hungarian scenography took up a more dynamic sweep and thus in the eighties one could already consider the further development of what may be called indeed an important period. At the same time about the middle of the decade we can also take note of some signs pointing to a new phase.

The structure, the theatrical set-up widened, newly founded theatres at Zalaegerszeg and Nyiregyháza became artistic workshops in their own right. The József Katona Theatre, wedged in the structure of the capital city, turned into a highly distinguished ensemble, with a specific and important scenographical outlook. New theatrical forms were born or perfected, e. g. scenes without a company of their own — as the Géza Gárdonyi Theatre founded in 1984 in the town Eger — or small theatres run on an independent cooperative basis; and the forerunner of the

former type, the Playhouse in Budapest, took its place among the most interesting houses of the country.

Theatrical activity became more open, its economical and legal conditions more informal; at the same time, owing to certain economical difficulties, increasing value was attached to economical efficiency which, of course, affected scenography, too.

While several economical and technical conditions deteriorated, still, as a result of the reconstruction of some theatre buildings and with the generous backing of the state, the architectural and technical basis of theatre activity and thus of scenography too could register important progress. Although adoption of the most advanced materials and manufacturing processes in scenography and in the turning out of sets and costumes is sometimes slow, there are however some promising experiments (laser theatre, performance theatre etc).

To sum it all up we may say that in the course of recent years we could witness a further progress of the former modern and strongly expressive tendencies in scenography which brought forth many results of outstanding

value.

Fortunately one could also witness members of the new generations soaring into excellence, the majority being fresh graduates of the Scenographical Department at the Academy of Fine Arts who operate mostly in the regions, enriching workshops or contributing to the founding of new ones.

Today's Hungarian scenography, equally active in the field of drama, musical and dance theatre, is in a period of permanent change and advance, boasting of a number of new achievements but also confronted with many problems and struggles

Hungary

Vystavující umělec: Zsolt Khell, Vystavující umělec: Árpád Csányi, Vystavující umělec: László Székely

Exhibit: Copiolanus

Lászlo SzékelyKatona József Színház, Budapest, 1985, director: G. Székely

Exhibit: Escape

M. BulgakovKatona József Színház, Budapest, 1984, director: G. Székely

, Vystavující umělec: István Szlávik, Vystavující umělec: Csaba Antal

Exhibit: Ignac Vono

E. FejesSzolnoki Szigligeti Szinház, Szolnok, 1983, director: T. Csizmadia

, Vystavující umělec: Péter Donāth, Vystavující umělec: Béla Gõtz, Vystavující umělec: Āgnes Gyarmathyová, Vystavující umělec: Márta Jánoskuti, Vystavující umělec: Csörsz Khell, Vystavující umělec: El Kazovskij, Vystavující umělec: Györgyi Szakācs, Vystavující umělec: György Szegö

NDR

This contribution likes to present the public of these Theatre Design International Exhibition productions that represent significantly the work of stage designers of our country during the last four theatre seasons. We would like to show again how their work at the final product performance goes closely and indissolubly together with the work of directors actors, dramaturges and musicians. They are traditionally not interested in an effective stage design for the scenic events, but with their measures as artists in conveying the message, the production offers

their audience.

In the process a remarkably grown self-consciousness of the stage and costume designers is appearing recently, it is reflected in very original often unusual sceneries, that use as well visual discordances, optical breaks collages from various space and time levels, ambivalent symbols, and that relate not any more only integrally to the other forms of expressions of the production, to the text, the directing, the expressions by gesture and the music, but more polyphonically, strive for dialogues. In this way they use methods and procedures that have an increasingly

formative influence on other art genres, too. Expression of a social and aesthetic appreciation of problems that got more subtile, in the form sphere of getting doubtful of the dividing lines between the genres. The exposition presents the stage design not only as a local determination but as art of disquiet.

German Democratic Republic

Vystavující umělec: Eberhard Keienburg, Vystavující umělec: Vjačeslav Sokolov, Vystavující umělec: Reínhart Zimmermann, Vystavující umělec: Jochen Finke, Vystavující umělec: Horst Sagert, Vystavující umělec: Jutta Harnischová, Vystavující umělec: Knut Hirche, Vystavující umělec: Gabriele Koerbl, Vystavující umělec: Klaus Noack, Vystavující umělec: Volker Pfüller, Vystavující umělec: Fotis Zaprasis, Vystavující umělec: Eleonore Kleiber

Nový Zéland

The work exhibited comes from theatres recognised as community orientated organisations. Only the community drama theatres have their own permanent auditoriums; the opera and ballet have no home theatre, but perform in commercial houses. New Zealand is a young country celebrating 100 years of establishment in 1990. Its small communities generated home entertainment for most of its history and relied on imported professional theatre until 1950. Since then, indigenous development has been in small drama organisations serving their immediate

community, and of seven small drama theatres in the 1960's, four of them had built flexible staging auditoriums. Even smaller groups have now grown up, in spaces for no more than 100 spectators, and its here we see the hard work to explore New Zealand writing and cross fertilisation of contemporary art forms. The back bone of the Country's drama resides in five community theatres which receive approximately 25 % subsidy indirectly from the state to serve their community with the best offering from both foreign and home writing, it is only these theatres that can afford resident designers (and who, as the most proficient, are extended to service the ad hoc work of opera companies and various ballet groups). There is a big gap between the reliable professional designer and those starting. The profession rates no more than 15 throughout the whole country and now considerable efforts are being made nationally to train production workers and designers. The country's very isolation and lack of understanding of in-depth artistic support is both a retardation and development value. Theatres are free to experiment without traditional pressures, and expect and will get productions at one quarter of the cost foreign budgets. Expediency and resourcefulness are a way of life for the New Zealand designer.

New Zealand

Vystavující umělec: Raymond Boyce, Vystavující umělec: Tony Geddes, Vystavující umělec: Pamela Maling, Vystavující umělec: David Thornley, Vystavující umělec: Janet Williamsonová

Polsko

Spectacles whose visual side were equally important as their literary ideas and became decide about the contents of performance. Their authors stage designers and directors sometime replaced entirely the dramatic contents of a play with their own narration based on visual sequences of various rhythms, mentions and series of conflicts. They begun creating their own scenarios-dramas of new type and transforming the function of the actors still conserving them as real creators of the theatre on stage.

Their theatre was different from its traditional form because it was created just by one person, being a screenwriter, stage designer and a director at the same time. Fundamental for all this theatrical event was stage design, taken to the limits of its potentiality and changed into the most important stuff. Most acknowledged are the productions of Tadeusz Kantor and Józef Szajna.

Polish exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial 1987 presented now is on the same way: in national section is shown Slowly Darkening Painfulness (Powolne ciemnienie malowidel) of Jerzy Grzegorzewski, originally produced in 1985 in Studio Theatre in Warsaw (costumer - B. Hanicka), and in a thematic section Chekhov's Ivanov interpreted in stage design by Leszek Madzik (performed in 1981 in J. Osterwďs Theatre in Lublin under direction of I. Gogolewski and with costumes of L. Jankowska). Grzegorzewski as well as Madzik, according to the words of Craig, can be named „The Artists of Theatre". They both are scenario writers, stage designers and directors at the same time The theatre made by Grzegorzewski is based on literature; however it is not presented directly. Literature decides of the frames of action but does not fill them. Visual side of Grzegorzewskis productions discloses the existence of things. The world of human ideas and values begins with a relation to things and corresponding experiences and feelings Slowly Darkening Paintures referring among others to the Malcolm Lowry s Under the Volcano, taking up the problems of human existence meaning of his actions and culture, discloses their beginning in the

visual sphere.

Poland

Vystavující umělec: Jerzy Grzegorzewski, Vystavující umělec: Barbara Hanická

Rumunsko

The main purpose of stage design, as an art which expresses the world by creating images of life's fragments, is at present fulfilled above all when scenographie approaches are defined by the specific status of stage design within the framework of the fine arts.

If we carefully study various stage design concepts, in the same way as other creative work by artists in other areas of the fine arts are studied, we can discover this basic approach in the most unexpected manner by which everything surrounding us is formed, whether it should be a street, a shop, a museum, an interior decoration or architecture outdoors. And it is precisely this specific and unique approach which we find in the work of some stage designers who by carrying out a synthesis, in fact create their own, new world. It is an approach which cannot be learnt, an approach which the artist is born with and which comes into its own at the moment of maturity, when the creator acquires his or her own artistic profile, his or her own „manuscript".

The work exhibited in our exposition has been subjected to these criteria; it is testimony to the above indicated approach to stage designs. We find a specific scenographical approach in the theatrical architecture and stage designs of Paul Bortnovski and Liviu Ciulei, we encounter it also in the stage designs of Vasile Rotaru and Ion Popescu-Udriste, as well as the costume designs by Doina Levinta, the buildings of Viorel Penisoará and Romulus Fenes, the scenography of Emilia Jivanov and Dan Jitianu.

If we attempt to newly define the meaning of specifically scenographie approaches, which we consider to be the indispensable prerequisite for the creation of dramatic action, then we come to the conclusion that the theatre of the future requires a new type of „stage director and designer", who creates the atmosphere of the production, who strives through dramatic structure towards an ideal and organic interpretation of the form and content of the production to achieve the natural expression of the whole creative team, based on the ideas of the play’s

text. It is the correctly interpreted structure of a dramatic work which accepts stage design elements as prerequisite, which creates the conditions for a valuable work of art. Thus in the future stage directors will strive for the implementation of an „universal stage structure", subordinated to the purposeful development of dramatic effect

Romania

Vystavující umělec: Mihai Madescu, Vystavující umělec: Vasile Rotaru, Vystavující umělec: Traian Niţescu, Vystavující umělec: Dan Jitianu, Vystavující umělec: Theodor Ciupe

Exhibit: The Hamlet

W. ShakespeareMagyár Szinház, Budapest, 1987, director: T. Gábor

, Vystavující umělec: Onisim Colta, Vystavující umělec: Romulus Feneş, Vystavující umělec: Emilia Jivanov

Exhibit: King Lear

W. ShakespeareTeatrul naţional Timişoara, Timişoara, 1987, director: I. Epemia

, Vystavující umělec: Doina Levinta, Vystavující umělec: Iuliana Mantoc, Vystavující umělec: Ion Popescu-Udrişte, Vystavující umělec: Viorel Stegaru Penişoara

Spojené státy americké

The USA Exhibit takes as its theme the designers „Work in Progress," a concept which illustrates the creative processes from which a theatre piece develops. Our setting-an archetypal „designers studio" — is propped and dressed with our exhibit materials. Intermingling are works by nearly 100 major US costume and scenic designers in the performing arts and entertainment media: theatre, opera, dance, television and film.

Source material; white and painted models; sketches and drawings elevations; samples; workshop; shop, rehearsal, and production photos; costume, prop, and set pieces illuminate the creative process which is both common to designers of all nations, yet unique to each.

United States

Vystavující umělec: Patton Campbell, Vystavující umělec: Karl Eigsti, Vystavující umělec: Michael Anania, Vystavující umělec: Ralph Funicello, Vystavující umělec: Marjorie Kellogg, Vystavující umělec: John Malolepsy, Vystavující umělec: Andrew B. Marlay, Vystavující umělec: Beni Montresor, Vystavující umělec: Julie Taymor, Vystavující umělec: Stuart Wurtzel

Spolková republika Německo

Federal Republic of Germany

Vystavující umělec: Achim Freyer, Vystavující umělec: Johannes Schuetz, Vystavující umělec: Hans Aeberli, Vystavující umělec: Max Bignens, Vystavující umělec: Jürgen Dreier, Vystavující umělec: Max Fritzsche, Vystavující umělec: Dominik Hartmann

Exhibit: The Seagull

A. P. ČechovSWF, Baden-Baden, 1963, director: B. Herlischka

Exhibit: The Cherry Orchard

A. P. CzechovScholssparktheater , West Berlin, 1961, director: B. Herlischka

, Vystavující umělec: Ottowerner Meyer, Vystavující umělec: Hans Heinrich Palitzsch, Vystavující umělec: Jürgen Rose, Vystavující umělec: Rolf Glittenberg, Vystavující umělec: Moidele Bickel, Vystavující umělec: Ilona Freyer, Vystavující umělec: Gaby Freyová, Vystavující umělec: Ekkehard Grübler, Vystavující umělec: Lore Haasova, Vystavující umělec: Paul Haferung, Vystavující umělec: Kurt Halleger, Vystavující umělec: Hein Heckroth, Vystavující umělec: Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Vystavující umělec: Rolf Christiansen, Vystavující umělec: Hanna Jordanová, Vystavující umělec: Götz Loepelmann, Vystavující umělec: Adolf Mahnke, Vystavující umělec: Peter Pabst, Vystavující umělec: Ernst Schütte, Vystavující umělec: Robert Stahl, Vystavující umělec: Joachim Streubel, Vystavující umělec: Edward Suhr, Vystavující umělec: Roman Weyl, Vystavující umělec: Erich Wonder, Vystavující umělec: Wolfgang Znamenacek

SSSR

The Soviet exposition of 1987 at Prague Quadrennial is somewhat different from those we showed at all the previous. Then we tried to present the scale and diversity of Soviet scenographie research, show the rich work of individual designers working in various cities and republics of the country. Now the exposition is wholly devoted to one subject called „Our Chekhov". There are only eight scenographers: Sergey Barkhin, David Borovsky, Alexander Vasiliev, Mart Kitayev, Edward Kochergin, Valery Levental, Daniil Leder and Vladimir Serebrovsky.

They are all distinguished masters of the Soviet theatre, and each has Chekhov productions to his credit. For them Chekhov is a living classic with whom a dialogue always reveals to the artist something very substantial and very important about life past and present, about the human soul, the times and about oneself. That being so, in choosing this structure for the exposition, we not only tried to meet the topic suggested by the Prague Quadrennial organizers (Chekhov productions) in the best possible way, but hoped that this time too, sketches and models

for Chekhov productions would give the spectator some idea about the fundamental principles underlying Soviet scenography and the wide diversity of plastic and scenic ideas, and their evolution in time, and the trends that have emerged in recent years.

How the same new trends reveal themselves in scenography based on another kind of drama, especially modern drama can be seen at another exposition of ours. It is on display at the House of Soviet Culture and Science, and we regard it as a second (inseparable from Chekhov's) part of the Soviet contribution to the Prague Quadrennial

1987.

Soviet Union

Vystavující umělec: David Borovsky

Exhibit: The Seagull

A.P. ČechovVigszihnás , Budapešť, director: I. Horvai

Exhibit: Ivanov

A.P. ČechovMoskovskij Chudožestvennyj Akademičeskij Těatr, 1977, director: O. Jefremov

, Vystavující umělec: Eduard Kočergin

Exhibit: My Ironic Luck

Eduard Kočergin

Exhibit: The Uncle Vana

A.P. ČechovDrama Theatre Princeton, Princeton, 1987, director: G. Toustonogov

, Vystavující umělec: Valerij Levental

Exhibit: The Cherry Orchard

A. P. CzechovTeatr dramy i komedii na Tagance, Moskva, 1975, director: A. Efros

Exhibit: The Three Sisters

A.P. ČechovMoskovskij Dram. Těatr na Maloj Bronnoj, 1982, director: A. Efros

Exhibit: The Uncle Vana

A.P. ČechovMoskovskij Chudožestvennyj Akademičeskij Těatr, 1985, director: O. Jefremov

Exhibit: The Seagull

A.P. Čechov, 1987

, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Serebrovskij, Vystavující umělec: Alexandr Vasiljev

Exhibit: Ivanov

A.P. Čechov, 1987

, Vystavující umělec: Mart Kitaev

Exhibit: The Cherry Orchard

A. P. ČechovLeningradskij Gosudarsyvennyj Akademičesnyj Teatr, 1987, director: I. Vladimirov

Exhibit: Ivanov

A.P. ČechovValst Javnathes , Riga, 1975, director: A. Šapiro

, Vystavující umělec: Sergei Barkhin

Exhibit: The Seagull

A.P. ČechovIvanovskij Bolšoj Dramatičeskij Těatr, 1975

, Vystavující umělec: Daniil Liděr

Španělsko

Spain

Vystavující umělec: Fabià Puigserver

Švédsko

The Swedish part of the exhibition consists of contributions made by several different artists, who have worked within varied kinds of theatre. Thereby, it reflects the manifoldness of current theatre life in Sweden. In our proportionately sparsely populated country more than one hundred professional theatres are in existence.

The include the national theatres, The Royal Opera and The Royal Dramatic Theatre, soon to be 200 years old, The Swedish National Theatre Centre, which tours around the entire country, a number of large city theatres, most of which were founded in the 1940s and 1950s and a number of regional theatres, born in the 1960s and 1970s in the

movement tor decentralization: now altogether 24 city and regional theatres.

There are also about forty state-supported free groups, some of which have permanent stages and some of which tour, and about the same number of not-supported groups.

The Swedish theatre, like most European theatre, is based on court theatre with its pronounced literary stress. The pictorial aspects of a theatre performance have been badly neglected equally by critics, scholars and the theatres' own performing artists.

During the past decades, however, stage design has grown in importance and the profession has become self-dependent. Since 1970 stage designers are educated at the Dramatic Institute. At present three students are admitted to a three-year training course every year. In Sweden today, there-are about 150 professional stage designers working.

The exhibition presents some examples of current Swedish stage design which we hope illustrates a growing awareness of the pictorial importance within various genres and styles of theatre: musical theatre drama dance and puppet theatre, classical works or works by modern authors, Swedish and international, on different types of stages- at the Royal Opera, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, The Swedish National Theatre Centre, regional theatres, theatre and dance groups.

Sweden

Vystavující umělec: Lars-Ake Thessman, Vystavující umělec: Ulla Kassius, Vystavující umělec: Agnes Monusová, Vystavující umělec: Nils Moritz, Vystavující umělec: Lennart Mörk, Vystavující umělec: Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, Vystavující umělec: Gunilla Pantzarová

Švýcarsko

When presenting his work on theatrical masks, Werner Strub cites a quotation from a book by Eduardo Sanguineti, Maschere e Choc, which is devoted to the work of Benno Besson, with whom Werner Straub collaborated, among others also on a production of Sophocles King Oedipus, adapted by the same Eduardo Sanguineti: „The theatre is a mask. It is reincarnation in the broadest sense of the word. The actor is created by this transformation, which occurs when playing a role; he seems to put aside his own every day identity, his own

civic status, to become someone else. Structurally, for him it means that, 1 am another'. By impersonating a character he creates and defines it on the stage and thus clearly articulates a previously accepted and agreed upon alienation. A mask, costume, make-up are signs, fraudulent but transparent, of replacing a person. When Besson chooses a mask it was because he likes to stress this system of clear falsification upon which the theatre is based with evident provocativeness and to remind us of the ritual origins of the word. This is our first paradox, in which

a presented reincarnation, which aims at creating a delusion, makes itself manifest and at the same time transforms characteristics of a magic ceremony into a cultural and playful convention. In a theatrical reincarnation we cannot separate the aspect of enchantment and the aspect of overt pretension. And this reincarnation is of course just as valid for an actor, for a time and a space. It also finds its way into the text. The here is also elsewhere, the now is also long ago. This character is exactly the same as that person. What he is saying is a direct quotation of his words."

Switzerland

Vystavující umělec: Werner Strub

Velká Británie

United Kingdom

Vystavující umělec: Ralph Koltai

Laos

The theatrical culture of Laos is for the remaining world an almost unknown offspring from the great theatrical tradition of the Orient. Nevertheless as early as the 14th century remarkable theatrical forms developed there, which are been preserved unchanged until the present and belong among the precious treasures of the world culture. From a number of Laotian principalities (rich with legends) arose in 1353 on the upper flow of Mekong first state formation with the capital in Luang Prabang. Its founder Fa-ngum spent his youth in exile at the royal court in Kampuchean Angkor. To his new empire he brought refined artists, builders, men of letters, musicians and theatre experts. In the traditions of Angkoťs culture primarily female dancers participated performing the goddess Apsara. She finally disappeared, but what retained and in an original way developed, was Laotian branch of music dance drama on the themes of Indian epic Ramayana or of legends about different Buddha's transformations so-called djatak.

A pentatonic melody produced by playing gongs, xylophones, drums and hobos, accompanies these classical productions with dance and mimic scenes, which are as a whole the unique form of a synthetic theatre, with a number of symbols and conventional signs applied mainly by masks, hand, eye and leg movements. In these productions performed always only women — also in men's roles. Presumably just in Laotian music dance drama is preserved the ancient tradition of Khmeťs theatre in the most untouched form. After the revolution in 1975 the cultural politics of the present-day People's Democratic Republic of Laos established favourable conditions to renewal of this national cultural treasure. From the courtial gardens of Luang Prabang the ballet activities have been transferred to the capital Vientiane, where they are — together with other classical and folk, but also with contemporary European music and dance forms — being studied and performed at the Academy of Arts and Dance. A new group of classical music and dance drama have been successfully constituted, which is being extended by new outstanding female dancers. Several dance groups have been founded specializing in folk dance of different Laotian nationalities, alike groups of classical and folk music. The latest speciality is European music, dance and ballet.

Laos

Nizozemí

Theatre which is Inspired by Scenography. In the Netherlands there is a theatrical movement which plays theatrical performances in places which were not intended for this purpose. This does not mean that any place can hold a stage for a theatrical performance; but such places can be a source of inspiration for specific stagings. The architecture and atmosphere of a building or the nature of a landscape thus create basic elements for the mutual interplay of actors, sounds and light.

The Netherlands Theatrical Institute here presents three temples of such performances one choreographic element predominate, while the other two are movement plays. The Last Meadow (Het laaste weiland) is a play which is inspired by the environment of a slaughterhouse; as soon as the butchers who work there are done with their work, the Grifteater, as the group is called, takes over the available space, in order to undertake, together with the audience, a trip across a meadow, which leads to nowhere. The performance by the BEWTH group takes place in a former iron mill. BEWTH has been playing in various such places for the last ten years: in churches, factories, circuses, in warehouses or palaces. With the help of such elements as dance, pantomime, music and lighting, the group creates a new type of theatre, based on visual poetry.

Zénith is the name of a dance, which originally was danced in the sand dunes. The choreography requires a sand dune 25 meters wide and 80 meters high. The main elements of the performance are natural sets: sand, open space, a high and steep slope — they are made maximum use of during the performance.

The Netherlands

Katalánie

Of the other cultures of Spain, has undergone a pronounced process of normalization which is the result of the new political situation and a sound immediate tradition whose main characteristic is creativity In this context, the consolidation of experiences from 1960 to 1975i has given rise to a new institutional theatre supported by public institutions and diversified private offerings which range over all fields of dramatic creation from repertoire to new visual forms or frontier genres such as theatre-dance. One of the most original and creative aspects of the Catalan theatre is stage design. With a historical background of a very rich stage design tradition, brilliantly developed from romanticism to the decade of the „isms", with their immediate background in the radical renovation of the last two decades, stage and costume designers have created a diverse plastic language. Among these professionals Fabiá Puigserver with his ripe style and professional virtuosity stands out He has become one of the specialists in greatest demand by the Catalan theatre and theatres in the rest of Spain and his work has begun to penetrate in Europe and America.

At the same time, because of the need to provide well-empted spaces for performing adequate to the volume of productions and the new audience of recent years, a quite important creative movement of theatrical architecture has started, which concerns both new buildings and the restoration and adaptation of old ones. One of the latest and most successful examples of restoration of old buildings is the Teatres de 1'Institute with its aim: to provide a stage for public performances those companies and genres (mime, puppets, experimental theatre) which encounter obstacles to performing in professional or public theatres.

Spain (Catalonia), through the Theatre Institute of the Country Council of Barcelona (Institut de Teátre de la Disputació de Barcelona) presents at the Prague Quadrennial 1987 some of the stage designs made by Fabiá Puigserver during the last five years: 17 productions with the stage and costumes designs made by him.
This is our first time in the Prague Quadrennial and we take part in it with the work of a very important stage designer. That is the reason why at the beginning of the exhibition we would like to furnish briefly some information concerning Puigserveťs previous works based on five important titles dating from 1963 to 1978.
Three different factors characterize Puigserveťs work: his accuracy in projecting and making the work; the large variety of formal and structural concepts and the unusual poetical power and dramatic insight of the spaces and costumes designed by him. He has influenced the contemporary Catalan theatre a lot and has opened new horizons for the Catalan stage design tradition.

Spain

Vietnam

The present-day Vietnamese theatre - besides the developing genres like pantomime, puppet theatre, show etc. - represents above all the KICH NOI Drama Theatre. It was founded in 1920 and directly influenced by French theatre (which in 1920 performed Moliere’s play in Hanoy). In the beginning its repertoire was based on the classical European drama, especially of French origin. After Vietnam gained independence the theatre's repertory was broadened by Soviet plays (above all those by Maxim Gorky). In recent years plays from other socialist countries have been staged, too (in 1985 first Slovak play Luigis Heart by Bukovcan was performed), at present the performance of Capek’s drama The White Scourge is being prepared. About fifty dramatic groups (including amateur ones) at present focus on revolutionary and propaganda themes. The Vietnamese theatre faces important cultural and political tasks: it is highly capable of reflecting urgent problems of the day with considerable political function.

Vietnam

Productions of A. P. Chekhov's dramas

Belgie

Belgium

Vystavující umělec: Jacques Berwouts

Bulharsko

Bulgaria

Vystavující umělec: Georgij Ivanov, Vystavující umělec: Ljubomir Jordanov, Vystavující umělec: Todor Stanilov, Vystavující umělec: Nevena Kavaldgieva

Československo

Former Czechoslovakia

Vystavující umělec: Ivana Brádková-Vohlídalová, Vystavující umělec: Jan Dušek, Vystavující umělec: Jaroslav Malina, Vystavující umělec: Josef Svoboda, Vystavující umělec: Ladislav Vychodil, Vystavující umělec: Helena Bezáková, Vystavující umělec: Zbyněk Kolář, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Nývlt, Vystavující umělec: Otakar Schindler, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Šrámek, Vystavující umělec: Otto Šujan, Vystavující umělec: Stanislava Vaníčková, Vystavující umělec: Joan Brehms, Vystavující umělec: Jarmila Křížková, Vystavující umělec: Albert Pražák, Vystavující umělec: Irena Greifová, Vystavující umělec: Michal Hess, Vystavující umělec: Josef Jelínek, Vystavující umělec: Gita Polónyová, Vystavující umělec: Marta Roszkopfová, Vystavující umělec: Tomáš Berka, Vystavující umělec: Milica Gédéonová, Vystavující umělec: Ludmila Pavlousková, Vystavující umělec: Libor Fára, Vystavující umělec: Vítězslav Fejlek, Vystavující umělec: Jindřich Smetana, Vystavující umělec: Zdeňka Šafková, Vystavující umělec: Vladimír Všetečka, Vystavující umělec: Ivo Žídek

Finsko

Finland

Vystavující umělec: Ralf Forsström, Vystavující umělec: Kaarina Hietaová

Francie

France

Vystavující umělec: Yannis Kokkos, Vystavující umělec: Jacques Marillier, Vystavující umělec: Roberto Platé, Vystavující umělec: Yuri Kuper

Japonsko

Japan

Vystavující umělec: Ben Uchiyama, Vystavující umělec: Shigeo Kawamori, Vystavující umělec: Takehisa Magofuku, Vystavující umělec: Keiko Hoshino, Vystavující umělec: Shigeo Ichiro, Vystavující umělec: Okajima Takada, Vystavující umělec: Ai Higuchi, Vystavující umělec: Kiyoshi Kawakami, Vystavující umělec: Šigeo Okajima, Vystavující umělec: Yoshie Saga

Kanada

Canada

Vystavující umělec: Petr Peřina

Maďarsko

Hungary

Vystavující umělec: László Székely, Vystavující umělec: István Szlávik, Vystavující umělec: Csaba Antal, Vystavující umělec: Béla Gõtz, Vystavující umělec: Márta Jánoskuti, Vystavující umělec: Györgyi Szakācs

Nový Zéland

New Zealand

Vystavující umělec: Raymond Boyce

Polsko

Poland

Vystavující umělec: Liliana Jankowska, Vystavující umělec: Leszek Madzik

Rumunsko

Romania

Vystavující umělec: Liviu Ciulei, Vystavující umělec: Romulus Feneş, Vystavující umělec: Doina Levinta