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Intimacy across visceral and digital performance (2012)
Book
Chatzichristodoulou, M., & Zerihan, R. (2012). R. Zerihan, & M. Chatzichristodoulou (Eds.). Intimacy across visceral and digital performance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337

Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance is an edited collection designed to address a diverse set of critical responses to and practical interrogations of the notion of being intimate in emergent and hybrid performance practices, aiming to e... Read More about Intimacy across visceral and digital performance.

Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida) (2012)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida). In Shakespeare: Troilus a Kressida (14 - 33). Národní divadlo

A critical essay on William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, written for the programme notes for David Radok's production at the National Theatre in Prague. The text discusses the play as as well as its sources and later adaptations, including sev... Read More about Válka a smilstvo: bezútešné svety Troila a Kressidy (Love and lechery: the disconsolate worlds of Troilus and Cressida).

John Russell Brown: studying Shakespeare in performance (2012)
Journal Article
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). John Russell Brown: studying Shakespeare in performance. Theatralia, 15(2), 194 - 196

A critical review of John Russell Brown's Studying Shakespeare in Performance (2011) with contextual links to Brown's other critical works.

The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare (2012)
Journal Article
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare. Theatralia, 15(2), 196 - 199

A critical review of The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare (2012, ed. John Russell Brown) reflecting the methodology of writing about acting.

Alice Dubská: the travels of the puppeteers Brát and Pratte through Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2012)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2012). Alice Dubská: the travels of the puppeteers Brát and Pratte through Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Theatralia, 15(2), 206 - 207

A critical review of Alice Dubská's monograph on the marionettist family Brát/Pratte (2012), who were active in Central and Northern Europe from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries.

Form and spontaneity: training for improvisation in football and theatre (2012)
Journal Article
Edinborough, C. (2012). Form and spontaneity: training for improvisation in football and theatre. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 3(2), 199-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2012.686448

This article explores the relationships between training approaches within football and improvised theatre. Drawing on the writings of Victor Turner, the article examines the liminoid nature of football and theatre, arguing that the formalised constr... Read More about Form and spontaneity: training for improvisation in football and theatre.

A Štestena, ta povstalecká devka, se na nej zubila: shakespearovské preklady Milana Lukeše" (And fortune on his damned quarry smiling, shew'd like a rebells whore": Milan Lukeš's Translations of Shakespeare) (2012)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2012). A Štestena, ta povstalecká devka, se na nej zubila: shakespearovské preklady Milana Lukeše" (And fortune on his damned quarry smiling, shew'd like a rebells whore": Milan Lukeš's Translations of Shakespeare). Theatralia, 15(1), 48 - 64

A critical analysis of Milan Lukeš's (1933-2007) translations of Shakespeare with a special view of his Macbeth and King Lear. The article develops the concepts of "translator's style", "translation opportunities", "reversions", "cacophony" and "expr... Read More about A Štestena, ta povstalecká devka, se na nej zubila: shakespearovské preklady Milana Lukeše" (And fortune on his damned quarry smiling, shew'd like a rebells whore": Milan Lukeš's Translations of Shakespeare).

Comparative time series analysis of perceptual responses to electroacoustic music (2012)
Journal Article
Bailes, F., & Dean, R. T. (2012). Comparative time series analysis of perceptual responses to electroacoustic music. Music Perception, 29(4), 359-375. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2012.29.4.359

This study investigates the relationship between acoustic patterns in contemporary electroacoustic compositions, and listeners’ real-time perceptions of their structure and affective content. Thirty-two participants varying in musical expertise (nonm... Read More about Comparative time series analysis of perceptual responses to electroacoustic music.

Morbidita hudby a opery (2) (The Morbidity of Music and Opera (2)) (2012)
Other
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). Morbidita hudby a opery (2) (The Morbidity of Music and Opera (2))

A critical essay on the sociology of contemporary opera practice and the practice of classical music. Inspired by the works of Joseph Kerman. The second part of a two-part text. Commissioned by the Opera PLUS website.

Morbidita hudby a opery (1) (The Morbidity of Music and Opera (1)) (2012)
Other
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2012). Morbidita hudby a opery (1) (The Morbidity of Music and Opera (1))

A critical essay on the sociology of contemporary opera practice and the practice of classical music. Inspired by the works of Joseph Kerman. The first part of a two-part text. Commissioned by the Opera PLUS website.

Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future (2011)
Book
Sant, T. (2011). Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future. The University of Chicago Press

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politi... Read More about Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future.

"What governs life": Švankmajer's Faust in Prague (2011)
Journal Article
Drábek, P., & North, D. (2011). "What governs life": Švankmajer's Faust in Prague. Shakespeare bulletin, 29(4), 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2011.0065

An article on Jan Švankmajer's 1994 film Lekce Faust with a contextual introduction to Švankmajer's films, contemporary Czech politics and society, Elizabethan drama and the tradition of Czech marionette theatre.