Kerényi Ferenc szerk.: Színháztudományi Szemle 28. (Budapest, 1991)

IDEGEN NYELVŰ ÖSSZEFOGLALÓK

The first day of the conference showed some results in methodology which featured as the main subject of the second day. Mr. Tamás Bécsy (Budapest) held a lecture On the Questions of Forming a Character. In the work of an actor the form is represented by his bodily manifestations, an important feature of which is the uniqueness and never-to-berepeatedness of the performance. The essential meaning to be expressed changed in its interpretation subject to history. In the universal history of the theatre there have been times when current aesthetic philosophy determined the direction of the concretizing hence the character formed by the actor assumed a psychological and sociological nature. In other periods, not insignificant either, (such as commedia dell'arte, melodrama, romanticism, operetta) the forms of the characters exist independently of the theoretical circumstances relying on the mimic abilities of the actors and are therefore etiological. Mr. Bécsy found the archetype of this latter in the tragic and comic masks of Greek theatre. As the avant-garde theories were not or at least not permanently realized, our own era does not possess an adequate type of scenic characterization. Mr. László Gerold (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) asked the questions: Why? and How? in his lecture: Poetical Aspects in Theatre Analysis. This branch of poetics hardly exists; part of aestheticians found it unimportant to elaborate finding the problem better solved by means of a dramatic or literary approach; others were content to harp on the complexity of theatre. A poetical analysis can center neither on the actor nor on the director. The actor is not an autonomous part of the performance while the director is there only, as it were, in spirit. In the lecturer's hypothesis the centre of this analysis should be the situation on stage. Mrs. Hedvig Belitska-Scholtz gave interesting information about The Theatre History Collection in the National Széchényi Library. Mrs. Belitska-Scholtz as curator of the collection told the audience that the collection was set apart in 1949 and now comprises of c. 40 thousand scripts, half a million posters, playbills and small pieces of printed matter and about 30 thousand pages of scenic material, 150 thousand photographs, 100 shelfmetres of manuscripts. Ferenc Kerényi: Questions of a Playbill of József Katona It will be two hundred years ago on 11 November 1991 that József Katona, author of Bánk Bán and pioneer of Hungarian classical national drama, was born. József Katona also played as an actor in his university years. He last acted on 19 August 1813, appearing in the leading role of one of his own dramatizations. The essay covers those pomts in the author's life which have hitherto been unknown, using the playbill of the performance.