NINO ŠKRABE I TRADICIJA PUČKE POZORNICE ; NINO ŠKRABE AND TRADITION OF POPULAR THEATRE // THEATRE FOR THE PEOPLE
U prvom dijelu članka prikazuju se pogledi na amatersko i pučko kazalište izneseni u knjigama Lj. Marakovića (Pučka pozornica, 1929.) te A. Freudenreicha (Gluma, 1934. i Kazalište za narod, 1940.). Ističe se Marakovićevo ustrajavanje na razdvajanju amaterskoga od profesionalnog kazališta, a Freudenreichovo na njihovu nadopunjavanju, kao i stav obojice da je etička (u Marakovića i vjerska) sastavnica pučkog kazališta važnija od estetičke. U drugom dijelu analiziraju se dva pučka igrokaza N. Škrabe, Za kunu nade i Isus u snack-baru, u kojima autor problematizira ugroženost pojedinca i zajednice, napose obitelji, u tranzicijskom razdoblju te na tragu Marakovićeva i Freudenreichova viđenja pučkoga kazališta poziva na povratak tradicionalnim vrijednostima, prije svega na odbacivanje i socijalističkoga i liberalno kapitalističkoga materijalizma, a obnovu zajedništva, solidarnosti i vjere. ; The first section of this essay deals with ideas of popular theatre and/or theatre for the people as conceived by two Croatian authors, theatre and literary critic Ljubomir Maraković, in the book Pučka pozornica (People's Stage, 1929), and architect and theatre director Aleksandar Freudenreich, in books Gluma (Acting, 1934) and Kazalište za narod (Theatre for the People, 1940). While Maraković insists on differences between nonprofessional and professional theatre, and on »believing people«, mostly rural, as the target audience of nonprofessional theatre, Freudenreich argues in favour of cooperation between nonprofessional and professional theatre, and lower, both rural and urban, classes as targeted audience for united »theatre for the people«. Ethical component of that sort of theatre is for Maraković, as well as for Freudenreich, fare more important than aesthetical one. The second section is focused two representative theatre pieces by playwright and theatre director Nino Škrabe (Jastrebarsko, 1947): melodrama Za kunu nade (Hope for a Penny) and Christmas play Isus u snack-baru (Jesus in a Snack-bar). In both plays Škrabe problematizes destruction of traditional values in Croatia in the time of, as he puts it, »deceptive and shameful transition« and »wild, vulgar capitalism«. His focus is on negative effects of economic and political changes on traditional lower-class family, and on love, faith and solidarity as the only way of resistance and preservation of the traditional human values.