Title: Mission (im)possible? Cross-gendered Shakespeare on Czech stages after 1989
Source document: Theatralia. 2021, vol. 24, iss. Special Issue, pp. 171-185
Extent
171-185
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ISSN1803-845X (print)2336-4548 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2021-S-11
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143680
Type: Article
Language
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
This essay examines the theatrical practice of cross-gender casting with a focus on three selected productions of Romeo and Juliet staged by the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava (2011, director Anna Petrželková), the NaHraně Theatre in Prague (2012, director Jan Frič), and the Činoherní Studio Ústí nad Labem (2012, director Filip Nuckolls).
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[8] KLÁR, Petr KlariN [sic]. 2013. Muži sobě aneb Romeo a Julie [Men to Themselves, or Romeo and Juliet]. Divadelní noviny 22 (2013): 2: 6.
[9] KLETT, Elizabeth. 2009. Cross-Gender Shakespeare and English National Identity: Wearing the Codpiece. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
[10] KONÍČKOVÁ, Olga. 2012. Romeo a Julie … a co jako? aneb To světu svítá a stmívá se v nás [Romeo and Juliet and What?, or It Dawns for the World and It Grows Dark for Us]. Kultura 21 (9. 10. 2012). [accessed on 10.04.2020]. Available online at http://www.kultura21.cz/divadlo/5252-romeo-a-julie-a-co-jako.
[11] MACHALICKÁ, Jana. 2011. Král Lear v Národním: šifra Jana Nebeského [King Lear, or the Jan Nebeský Code] Lidovky (17. 11. 2011). [accessed on 22.09.2020]. Available online at https://www.lidovky.cz/kultura/kral-lear-v-narodnim-sifra-jana-nebeskeho.A111115_103052_ln_kultura_btt.
[12] MIŠTEROVÁ, Ivona. 2013. Angloamerické drama na plzeňských scénách. [Anglo-American Drama on Pilsen Stages]. Plzeň: University of West Bohemia, 2013.
[13] ORGEL, Stephen. 1996. Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
[14] RESLOVÁ, Marie. 2012. Drama Richard III. jako černý kabaret s dobrým koncem [The Drama Richard III like a Cabaret with a Happy Ending]. Lidovky (4. 11. 2012). [accessed on 20.09.2020]. Available online at https://ceskapozice.lidovky.cz/recenze/drama-richard-iii-jako-cerny-kabaret-s-dobrym-koncem.A121101_123724_pozice_82177.
[15] SENELICK, Laurence. 2000. The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre. London: Routledge, 2000.
[16] SHAKESPEARE, William. 2000. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. by Jill L. Levenson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
[17] SHAPIRO, Michael. 1996. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Michigan: University of Michigan, 1996.