Tešín Theatre
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Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
in the town of Český Těšín
Ceský Tešín
Český Těšín is a town in the Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. The town is commonly known in the region as just Těšín . It lies on the west bank of the Olza River, in the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia...
(Czeski Cieszyn), Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
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It is unique, because comprises two ensembles, Czech and Polish, plays are presented in both the Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
and Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
s. The Polish ensemble serves the Polish minority in the Czech Republic
Polish minority in the Czech Republic
The Polish minority in the Czech Republic is a Polish national minority living mainly in the Zaolzie region of western Cieszyn Silesia. The Polish community is the only national minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area. Zaolzie is located in the north-eastern...
. Together with ensembles in Vilna and Lvov it is one of the few theatres outside Poland having professional Polish ensemble. It was established in 1951.
The theatre was founded in August 1945. It changed several times its name, the current one is from 1991. Until 1961 it operated in several places in the town. In 1961 the new building was built and the theatre was relocated there.
Directors
- Antonín Kryška (1945-1946)
- Jan Macháček (April 1946-May 1946)
- Antonín Brož (June 1946-December 1946)
- Jan Macháček (1946-1949)
- Josef Zajíc (1949-1960)
- František Kordula (1960-1972)
- Libuše Kišová (deputy) (1972-1973)
- Ladislav Slíva (deputy) (1973-1974)
- Josef Srovnal (1974-1976)
- Józef Wierzgoń (1976-1990)
- Ladislav Slíva (1990-1996)
- Roman Rozbrój (1996-2000)
- Karol Suszka (2000- )