Přehled o publikaci

The article reflects on the more than ten-year creative journey of the Aldente Theatre, which works with actors with Down syndrome, and analyses the tension between the artistic intention and the audience's perception of the so-called "political body" of an actor with otherness. Using the extended metaphor of travel (the dramaturgical search for a staging key) and "skates" (a body burdened with social meanings), the author traces the development of the company's staging strategies from explicitly engaged authorial work to classical texts and back again. Based on specific examples of productions and audience reactions, she shows that the political legibility of the bodies of actors with Down syndrome persists even when the production tries to suppress this level, and that the audience often confuses the characters with real actors. The text thus contributes to the discussion of actor-specific theatre, the ethics of representing otherness, and the limits of the actor's emancipation in the context of social expectations.