Original scientific paper

Folk Theatre of Hvar, Marked by Genre and Authorship

Dubravka Crnojević Carić

Abstract

In this paper I elaborate the particularities of the Folk Theatre of Hvar, as well as the theatre life on the island of Hvar. The isolated position of the islanders, as well as their exceptional and centuries-old commitment to theatre as a form that has a healing effect on the community as a whole, indicates the diverse relationship of the intimate and the collective and helps to deconstruct genre relationships which are permanently present in everyday life. Representative forms indicate that interpersonal relationships are determined by conventions, at the same time offering a protected space, a space for experimentation and »recovery«. The space of the theatre, affirming the play as a necessity and need of the community, allows freedom to meet one’s own otherness. Relying on philosophers, sociologists and theatrologists such as Niklas Luhmann, G. H. Mead and Branko Gavella, I question the relationship between the social and personal system, »I« and »me«, subject and object, personal and collective identity and memory, »players« and observers, theatre and everyday life, games and reality.

Keywords

genre; everyday life; isolation; parodic counterpart; ludism

Hrčak ID:

246512

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246512

Publication date:

20.10.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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