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How to Become Amateur. Tales from the Czech Alternative Theatre before and after 1989

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018

Abstract

The study focuses on the perspectives of the evolution of the tradition of the Czech (Czechoslovak) amateur theatre and tries to analyze the principles and a very special role of the "movement of Czech amateur theatre" in the Czech theatre history, using the artistic story of Petr Lébl (1965-1999), "enfant terrible" of the Czech theatre of the 1990s, as pars pro toto of the traditional and long-lasting interconnection of the artistic worlds of the professionals and non-professionals and as the unique case of an extraordinary theatre-maker who "stayed always amateur".