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"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.

Náruc Shakespeara (An armful of Shakespeare) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Náruc Shakespeara (An armful of Shakespeare). Divadelní revue, 22(3), 67 - 90

A critical article on the recent Czech Shakespeare criticism and translations, elaborating the contextual significance, theorizing the consequences and reflecting the current state of Czech theatre practice, translations and Shakespeare studies.

Príspevek k provázkovské mytologii (a contribution to the mythology of the Goose on a String Theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Príspevek k provázkovské mytologii (a contribution to the mythology of the Goose on a String Theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 266 - 267

A critical review of Petr Oslzlý's book "Theatre on a String's Commedia dell'Arte Production (1974-1985): An Analysis, Reconstruction and Documentation of Peter Scherhaufer's and Harlequin Boleslav Polívka's Production" (Brno: JAMU, 2011).

Torontská disertace o ceském divadle (A Toronto doctoral dissertation on Czech theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Torontská disertace o ceském divadle (A Toronto doctoral dissertation on Czech theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 277 - 279

A critical review of Adam Grunzke's PhD thesis "Models of Aesthetic Subversion: Ideas, Spaces, and Objects in Czech Drama and Theatre of the 1950s and 1960s", defended at the University of Toronto.

Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 285 - 291

A critical essay on the papers presented at the international theatre studies conference held at the Theatre Faculty of the Janácek Academy of Performing Arts, 2008, to the honour of Prof. Ivo Osolsobe. These papers were published in a collection ent... Read More about Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre).

Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14 (2011)
Journal Article
Bailes, F., & Barwick, L. (2011). Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14. Music Perception, 28(5), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.28.5.473

Songs that are not notated but transmitted through live performance are of particular interest for the psychological study of the stability of tempo across multiple performances. While experimental research points to highly accurate memory for the te... Read More about Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14.

Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training (2011)
Journal Article
Edinborough, C. (2011). Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2(1), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2010.543917

Decision-making is a fundamental part of the actor's work. Actors must choose how to present a character, how to tell a story, and how to communicate with an audience. This article examines how certain somatic practices used in actor-training can imp... Read More about Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training.

Joanne Rochester, Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Joanne Rochester, Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger. Early Modern Literary Studies, 15(3), 0 - 0

Review of Joanne Rochester's book on "Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger" drawing contextual links to early modern drama in Europe

No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy (2010)
Journal Article
Peacock, L. S. (2010). No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy. Popular entertainment studies, 1(2), 93-106

This article explores the relationship between danger and laughter in the work of a number of what might be defined as slapstick or physical comedians. The notion of physical comedians risking life and limb in order to generate laughter from an admir... Read More about No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy.

Na troskách struktury: stati o divadelní sémiotice a strukturalismu roku 2008 (On the ruins of the structure: writings on theatre semiotics and structuralism in 2008) (2010)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2010). Na troskách struktury: stati o divadelní sémiotice a strukturalismu roku 2008 (On the ruins of the structure: writings on theatre semiotics and structuralism in 2008). Theatralia, 13(2), 150 - 157

An article reflecting on the state of theatre semiotics and theatre structuralism as presented by two collections of essays published in 2008.

The Roman Tragedies (2010)
Journal Article
Billing, C. (2010). The Roman Tragedies. Shakespeare quarterly, 61(3), 415 - 439. https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2010.0006

This article is a critical account of the multi-media performance of Shakespeare's: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra by Toneelgroep (Amsterdam), directed by Ivo Van Hove and Designed by Jan Versweyveld.

Dynamic melody recognition : distinctiveness and the role of musical expertise. (2010)
Journal Article
Bailes, F. (2010). Dynamic melody recognition : distinctiveness and the role of musical expertise. Memory & cognition, 38(5), 641-650. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.5.641

The hypothesis that melodies are recognized at moments when they exhibit a distinctive musical pattern was tested. In a melody recognition experiment, point-of-recognition (POR) data were gathered from 32 listeners (16 musicians and 16 nonmusicians)... Read More about Dynamic melody recognition : distinctiveness and the role of musical expertise..

Margita Havlícková: Profesionální divadlo v královském meste Brne 1668-1733 (Margita Havlícková: Professional Theatre in the Royal City of Brno 1668-1733) (2010)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2010). Margita Havlícková: Profesionální divadlo v královském meste Brne 1668-1733 (Margita Havlícková: Professional Theatre in the Royal City of Brno 1668-1733). Theatralia, 13(1), 111 - 112

A review of Margita Havlícková's Professional Theatre in the Royal City of Brno 1668-1733 (Brno: JAMU, 2009).

Stríbrný, Zdenek and Zdenek Beran (eds.): Tušivá rozpomnení: Jezerní básníci [Shadowy Recollections: The Lake Poets] (2010)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2010). Stríbrný, Zdenek and Zdenek Beran (eds.): Tušivá rozpomnení: Jezerní básníci [Shadowy Recollections: The Lake Poets]. Brno studies in English, 36(1), 211 - 212

A review of Zdenek Stríbrný and Zdenek Beran's edition of Václav Renc's translation of the Lake Poets. The anthology is published four decades after its translation.

Long-term melodic expectation: The unexpected observation of distant priming effects (2009)
Journal Article
Bailes, F., Delbe, C., & Delbé, C. (2009). Long-term melodic expectation: The unexpected observation of distant priming effects. Musicae Scientiae, 13(2), 315-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/102986490901300205

This report provides a brief account of an experiment whose control conditions produced interestingly counter-intuitive results. The method adapted priming techniques to explore whether imagining well-known melodies would facilitate perceptual discri... Read More about Long-term melodic expectation: The unexpected observation of distant priming effects.

Craving the whole essence: The photograph as document, artwork, and framework in the theatre of Vs. E. Meyerhold (2008)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2008). Craving the whole essence: The photograph as document, artwork, and framework in the theatre of Vs. E. Meyerhold. About Performance, 8, 111-123

Report presented discusses the photographs of the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold as a document and artwork. Report aims at finding the hierarchical relationship between theatre and photo-documentation.