In Slovenian (youth) literature, three authors who have worked in the field of drama and/or theatre stand out – namely, Svetlana Makarovič, academically trained actress (Sapramiška), Milan Jesih ...(Four Plays for Children, adaptations of Andersen’s fairy tales The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling) and Andrej Rozman Roza. The paper will focus on the latter, who was strongly influenced by the theatre experiment in Slovenia, especially during the formative period of his studies of the Slovenian language (1974–1978). Andrej Rozman Roza (1956) started performing and/or publishing plays in the period 1981–1990 (Inspector Schwake, 1986; collection of texts Ana Monró Theatre, 1991, etc.). He is known in literary history as a youth poet and is included in Slovenian language curricula (1998, 2011, 2018). However, the definition of a systemic author is more appropriate for him (I. Even Zohar, M. Dović) since of the six functions in the literary system (author, institution, market, repertoire, book, reader) he holds at least three roles (author, “institution”, book living book, etc.). This paper focuses on adaptations of classics of Slovenian (Cankar, Levstik, Linhart, Prešeren, etc.) or world literature that – regardless of literary genre or type – have become crossover literature in the process of literary reception, especially in picture-book editions (e.g., A Midsummer Night’s Dream which has the international fairy tale type number ATU 899A Pyramus and Thisbe). According to B. Kümmerling-Meibauer’s definition of crossover classics or authorship, Rozman is a crossover author. In addition, according to L. Hutcheon’s theory, adaptations are an important part of Rozman’s work and contribute to the updating of classics and modern classics. The paper presents the collection Brvi čez morje (The Footbridge Across the Sea), which contains thirteen plays, three of which are folktale texts – Janko and Metka (Hansel and Gretel) ATU 327, Obuti maček ( Puss in Boots) ATU 545B, Vžigalnik (The Tinderbox) ATU 562 – and one which is a fairy tale, Kekec ATU 1137). Intertextually, they refer to folktale types.
Performance is a key tool in emergency preparedness and the rehearsal of professional response, simultaneously raising questions about the practice of cultural assumptions in this context. Usually ...the actors in preparedness exercises are civil servants who perform the work of the nihilistic imagination in often-apocalyptic fictional scenarios, performing the unthinkable without an audience. Their improvised words and actions reveal decisions of life and death made by the few on behalf of the many which are then filtered, through preparedness publications, to the public. This article examines a public preparedness exercise called Emergency Exercise 2010: Operation Snowman, which took place during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science in 2010. It formed part of an ESRC-funded project, 'Preparedness Pedagogies, and Race: An Interdisciplinary Approach' (2009-10) which was informed by Critical Race Theory (CRT) and psychoanalytic interpretation. The exercise was held in a local authority nuclear bunker in Sussex. Young drama students were invited to perform in the roles of preparedness professionals to explore the validity of cultural assumptions perceived in preparedness exercises. Through the use of Freud's writing on the uncanny, this article explores the performance of race in the preparedness exercise, focusing in particular on the uncanny role assigned to a black minority ethnic (BME) corpse in this context. Following Zizek's analysis of the relationship between government and cultural industries (2002, 16), this paper critiques such a use of theatre application as a tool for the elite and argues for the application of othered performance for public preparedness.
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