A few notes on Branko Gavella and his theory of acting

Blažević, Marin

doi:10.1080/13528165.2005.10871418

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“…PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY VOL 3 (1) (2017) informative level (see Petlevski in Cornis-Pope and Neubauer 2007;Blažević 2014). The aim of this paper is to contribute to the shift in the perception of Gavella's work, and to point to the relevance of Gavella's theory of acting for the autochthonous development of the European branch of the modern philosophy of performance, as an interdisciplinary field of research different from the methods traditionally employed by aestheticians of theatre.…”

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An Early Concept of the Theatre of Interplay: The Relevance of Branko Gavella�s Theory for the Development of Performance Philosophy

Petlevski

2017

Performance Philosophy

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, a well-known Croatian theatre director of late modernity, had a significant impact on ex-Yugoslav theatrical life. However, it is important to stress the fact that Gavella's formative years were spent in Austro-Hungarian cultural milieu: he defended a doctoral thesis in the field of epistemology under the title Die Erkenntnistheoretische Bedeutung des Urteils [The Epistemological Significance of Judgment] in Vienna in the year 1908, then he started contributing theatre reviews to Agramer Tagblatt in 1910, and he put his first theatrical production-Schiller's The Bride of Messina-on the stage of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb,in the year of 1914. Gavella had conceived the conceptual gist of his theoretical work in the early thirties (see Gavella 1934aGavella , 1934bGavella , 1934c, and it is beyond any doubt that his anticipatory theoretical insights into the phenomenon of acting make him a pioneer in the modern, and to a certain anticipatory degree, in the postmodern field of performance philosophy. Upon thoroughly reading the available material-Gavella's theoretical essays and fragments posthumously collected under the title Glumac i kazalište [Actor and Theatre]; exploring the wider context of his thought on theatre aesthetics as presented in the articles and pieces published in various periodicals and in his books Književnost i kazalište [Literature and Theatre] and Hrvatsko glumište [Croatian Stage]we have for the first time extrapolated the theoretical and philosophical level of Gavella's approach to theatre performance, publishing our findings in 2001. The book Kazalište suigre: Gavellin doprinos teoriji [Theatre of Interplay: Gavella's Contribution to Theory] (Petlevski 2001) was the result of a multi-decade research recognized mostly nationally and regionally. The wider international audience had been informed about Gavella's theoretical work only recently, on a small-scale,

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