Boska władza reżysera. Karel Hugo Hilar – pierwszy nowoczesny reżyser w czeskim teatrze
The Divinity of Director’s Power. Karel Hugo Hilar – the First Modern Czech Theatre Director
The aim of this research was to characterize changes in the perception of a function of
theatre director at the begging of the 20th century. The Czech theatrical culture taking the
pattern of great European theatre reformers of thattime, created a genuine theatrical theory
of directing. Its first representative and implementer was Karel Hugo Hilar. His work was
based on an assumption that a director is the highest instance in a preparation of performance, that can be compared only to a role of a sovereign. Moreover, Hilar was the first in the
Czech cultural context to call a director the creator of a scenic reality. A reality that would
represent a current world view transformed by theatrical means and the creative imagination
of an artist.
20th century Czech theatre, Hilar, Reinhardt, Craig, theatre directing theory, scenic reality
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2013, nr 5, s. 75–87
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