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Performative Models and Physical Fictions (2023)
Journal Article
Drábek, P. (2023). Performative Models and Physical Fictions. Litteraria Pragensia : Studies in Literature and Culture, 32(64), 8-36

Arcadian Theatre is a concept for performance practice that uses fictional scenarios to engage participants in autotelic play that facilitates intercultural (inter-epistemological) dialogue. In so doing, the performance models of Arcadian Theatre ena... Read More about Performative Models and Physical Fictions.

Notes and Queries... That Wren Drawing (2021)
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Fergusson-Baugh, C. (2021). Notes and Queries... That Wren Drawing. Theatre and performance design, 21(1-2), 24-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2021.1935625

In this article I will expand on work presented in ‘Haptic Insights’ (Fergusson Baugh 2018) and demonstrate the value of the methodologies proposed there on a case study reconstruction of the second Drury Lane theatre (1674) initially prepared for th... Read More about Notes and Queries... That Wren Drawing.

Heterotelic Models as Performatives: From Speech Acts to Propositionality (2021)
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Drabek, P. (2021). Heterotelic Models as Performatives: From Speech Acts to Propositionality. Litteraria Pragensia : Studies in Literature and Culture, 30(60), 100-117

Performatives in the sense of speech act theory (SAT) have long been held for the elementary building blocks of theatre and performance. This article proposes a theory of performative models as autonomous forms that are (1) propositional (to be worke... Read More about Heterotelic Models as Performatives: From Speech Acts to Propositionality.

Scenography 2019 in PQ Talks (2020)
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Příhodová, B., & Drábek, P. (2020). Scenography 2019 in PQ Talks. Theatre and performance design, 6(1-2), 26-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1771943

Co-authored with Barbora Příhodová, this essay analyses the plurality of scenography as presented in the PQ Talks programme of the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, curated by the two authors. The curatorial concept is explained and justified, followed by an... Read More about Scenography 2019 in PQ Talks.

What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay (2019)
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Drábek, P. (2019). What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay. Early theatre, 22(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.12745/et.22.2.4128

This essay reviews seven recent volumes on the commedia dell'arte: Christopher B. Balme, Piermario Vescovo, and Daniele Vianello's edited volume Commedia dell’Arte in Context (2018); Judith Chaffee and Oliver Crick's edited The Routledge Companion to... Read More about What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay.

National e-resources of Shakespeare translations in Europe: (Dis)assembling the black box (2019)
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Cetera-Włodarczyk, A., Tronch, J., Drábek, P., Gaydin, B., Makarov, V., Montorfano, B., …Zakharov, N. (2019). National e-resources of Shakespeare translations in Europe: (Dis)assembling the black box. Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 99(1), 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767819835567

© The Author(s) 2019. This article discusses the construction, operation and scholarly usefulness of electronic resources of Shakespeare translations. In particular, it offers an overview of several existing European digital resources of Shakespeare... Read More about National e-resources of Shakespeare translations in Europe: (Dis)assembling the black box.

Shakespeare’s myriad-minded stage: Propositional spaces of cultural hybridity (2019)
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Drábek, P. (2019). Shakespeare’s myriad-minded stage: Propositional spaces of cultural hybridity. Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 99(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767819835551

© The Author(s) 2019. The concept of hybridity is profoundly ingrained in logocentric epistemologies that assert such cultural constructs as the unity of a text, authorship, ownership or an identity of sorts. This article aims at hybridity that takes... Read More about Shakespeare’s myriad-minded stage: Propositional spaces of cultural hybridity.

Visualising Process- Hofman’s 1926 Hamlet (2018)
Journal Article
Fergusson Baugh, C. (2018). Visualising Process- Hofman’s 1926 Hamlet. Theatralia, 21(2), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2018-2-2

The 1926 production of Hamlet is of particular significance in a range of contexts. It was Karel Hiller’s return production following a career hiatus occasioned by a devastating stroke in 1924 and marked the beginning of a more reflective stage of hi... Read More about Visualising Process- Hofman’s 1926 Hamlet.

Using the method to be myself: adapting and appropriating historical training approaches for interactive performance (2018)
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Edinborough, C. (2018). Using the method to be myself: adapting and appropriating historical training approaches for interactive performance. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 9(2), 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2018.1453863

This article examines how notions of artistic truth and authenticity articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and his followers might be adapted for use within interactive and immersive performance. Making connections between Stanislavski's aesthetics... Read More about Using the method to be myself: adapting and appropriating historical training approaches for interactive performance.

Haptic insights: model making as historical methodology (2018)
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Baugh, C. F. (2018). Haptic insights: model making as historical methodology. Theatre and performance design, 4(1-2), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2018.1464843

This article explores the value of digital reconstruction practice to the theatre historian in general but in particular the historian concerned with exploring visual histories offered by the areas of theatre design and architecture. It will articula... Read More about Haptic insights: model making as historical methodology.

Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation (2018)
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Drabek, P. (2018). Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation. Shakespeare Studies -Columbia then Albuquerque-, 46, 35-46

In 1997, Stephen Greenblatt observed in his introduction to The Norton Shakespeare: “The fantastic diffusion and long life of Shakespeare’s works depends on their extraordinary malleability”. Two years later, Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer publishe... Read More about Shakespeare's myriad-minded stage as a transnational forum: Openness and plurality in drama translation.

The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre (2017)
Journal Article
Conroy, C., Dickenson, S. J., & Mazzoni, G. (2018). The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 23(1), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2017.1398641

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an attempt to articulate and explore the relationship between the science of memory and the applied theatre project, The Not Knowns. The project was a collaboration between theatr... Read More about The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre.

Bakhtin and theatre? (2016)
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Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Bakhtin and theatre?. Theatralia, 19(2), 152-155

Review of Dick McCaw. Bakhtin and Theatre: Dialogues with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Grotowski. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 247pp.

Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats (2016)
Journal Article
Skinner, A. (2016). Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(3), 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1225184

Soviet socialist realism is frequently constructed as the death knell of the Russian avant-garde. The combination of vague instructions (mainly concerning the required effect of the work, rather than its formal construction) with severe consequences... Read More about Exploring the hinterlands : avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin’s Aristocrats.

"the silent treatment": Absence as Presence in Linda McLean's Gendered Environments (2016)
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Morgan McKean, K. S. (2016). "the silent treatment": Absence as Presence in Linda McLean's Gendered Environments. Contemporary Women's Writing, 10(1), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpv029

The landscapes of Linda McLean’s plays hold the bodies and voices of those the characters onstage have lost, creating echoes that connect to ideas of retelling, of hauntings that go beyond individual and cultural reenactments. This sense of echoes is... Read More about "the silent treatment": Absence as Presence in Linda McLean's Gendered Environments.

Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters (2015)
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Billing, C. M., & Drábek, P. (2015). Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters. Theatralia, 5-31. https://doi.org/10.5817/ty2015-2-1

This article is both an introduction to this volume as well as to the rich and enchanting world of Czech puppet theatre, with its unique combination of transnational and geographically and cultural distinctive features. Pavel Drábek's essay, incorpor... Read More about Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters.