«The Amateur Theatre of "Our Flag"» as the decent example of the published series of the 20–30’s of the XXth century

Abstract

The peculiarities of the published theatrical series «The Amateur Theatre of "Our Flag"» (1935–1937), founded and published by Ivan Tyktor, are analyzed. The criterions and the obstacles, which were determining during the selection for the series, are founded. The peculiarities of the author’s prefaces and the director’s remarks, which helped the amateurs to understand not only the main idea of the proposed edition, but also to prepare it for the staging correctly are investigated. The ways of the promotion, which approximated the readers with the editions by the methods of material and purely creative encouragement are analyzed. These series are remarkable especially in the conditions of that time when there were no professional books for the amateurs of 20–30’s of XXth century of Galicia because of the level of its preparation. That’s why we have a reason to say that these editions can be a decent example for the authors of the nowadays theater books devoted to the amateur actors, which only begin their career in this kind of art.