Kovács Tivadar szerk.: Theatrum — Színháztudományi értesítő 1963/1

Idegen nyelvű ismertetések

Western European frontiers. She saw the forms of communication with the West in the translation of plays and in the guest-performances of western companies in Eastern Europe.It is useful to note that only those of these forms were actually taten over that at the time proved useful either from a social or from an artistic aspect. In the following discussion it was pointed out that at the analysis of ideologies in general and at that of the theatre in particular the degree and character of the European Influence has always been determined and balanced by the Inner laws of the natural development of the theatre in each of these countries. There is no doubt that Eastern European culture has been greatly effected by the West, at the same time it has never been vitally dependent on it. Since western scholars and some of the eastern scholars also had not reckoned with the particular development of the Eastern European theatre, the speakers, e.g. Lajos Jordáky, Endre Angyal, .Ferenc Hont having ascertained these effects expounded the results of their research that certified the specific inner laws of the Eastern European theatre. The third lecture, given by Dr. György Székely dealt with a new branch of the science of the theatre, with the discipline called "the study of theatrical practice". It is this branch of theatre research that is most directly connected with the living stage and its consistent application to the organization of the theatre, its cultivation and itB spreading is vitally important in the development of theatrical culture. At the beginning of the study of this new discipline the starting point was that the theatre, being a social aesthetical phenomenon, should be viewed not only from its aesthetical aspects, but - since the theatre is a complex phenomenon in every respect all the other aspects important for the aesthetical activities of the theatre should be considered also. Such are: the study of the organization of the theatre, economics, techniques, legal matters, the - 187 -