HVIEZDONOSCI - OBRAZ CUDZINCA V ĽUDOVOM DIVADLE A PREMENY TROJKRÁĽOVEJ TÉMY

The author examines the issue of Twelfth Night theatrical idiom in a broad cultural context. She looks at its origins in the Christian feast of Epiphany, as well as on integration of more archaic elements of folk theatre into the Twelfth Night after Kračún (winter solstice). She conceives this idiom as an open to racial, religious and cultural presentation of otherness, as well as a situational model for the projection of specific historical events - as illustrated by the example of staging paintings from the 15th century. The central part of the study draws on two major interpretive shifts, first analysing fragment from Ballek’s staging performance “Tiso” in traditional space of the theatre, second an itinerant theatrical activities of modern carolling performance “The Good News”, seen as a new theatrical phenomenon in terms of cultural and social functions and characterized by its strong territorial expansion.