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  • 27 - Jazz as Sound for the Stage: The Liberated Theater and its Progeny

  • from Part III - The Twentieth Century and Beyond
  • Edited by Martin Nedbal, University of Kansas, Kelly St. Pierre, Wichita State University and Institute for Theoretical Studies, Prague,, Hana Vlhová-Wörner, University of Basel and Masaryk Institute, Prague
  • Book:
    A History of Music in the Czech Lands
    Published online:
    21 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 380-392

  • Summary

    The societal liberalization of the decade that culminated in the Prague Spring in 1968 was evident early on in a wave of new small-scale theater companies. One notable example is the Semafor Theater, founded in 1959 by Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr. The main model for these ensembles, especially for Semafor, was the Osvobozené divadlo (the Liberated Theater) of the interwar period (1926–38). The Liberated Theater earned a legendary reputation, thanks in part to the comedy duo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich. Equally legendary was the music of the nearly blind in-house composer and bandleader of the Liberated Theater, Jaroslav Ježek (1906–42). This chapter begins by exploring the place of the Liberated Theater and its music in Czech theater culture and concludes by highlighting the continuities with the Semafor Theater.