"The Comedian's System" - Vladimír Gamza, an alumnus of the First Studio of MAT in interwar Czechoslovakia in the 1920s
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | It is well known that after 1918 the newly founded Czechoslovakia became an asylum for thousands of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian emigrants. Among the exiles we find former members of the MAT and its First Studio. Kachalov Group in Prague is well known. During this period there was also repatriation of Czechoslovaks settled in Russia. Among them was Vladimír Gamza (1902-1928), an admirer of the First Studio, who attempted to implement its programme in Czechoslovakia: the Czech Studio (1924/25 season) and the Art Studio (1926/27). Gamza's example illustrates the issue of cultural transmission. Gamza was raised by Russian modernist theatre until he was 19. His direct experience of Russian theatre is linked to the pre-revolutionary period, yet in his work and its reflection we can trace a partial knowledge of the Stanislavsky System. |