RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

e.\presiveness and old-fashioned in some sense, then it could be said, at least from the point of programme orientation, that the two following forms of ”uniting” the theatre e,\perience and specific expressive devices of radiophonv have a lasting character. Thev cannot be considered lower forms in the programme sense although a formal independence of radio<irama programmes is rather affected in this sort of uniting since the theatre conventions and literarv drama structures have an emphasized role, for thev had originallv occurred and paradigmaticallv enclosed themselves into the aesthetic norms and renuiremepls of an essentiallv different medium If we accept a general attitude that breakages with the inherited and foreign aesthetics is a prerenuisite for imminent development of radio-drama, we can neither practicallv nor theoreticallv remove a complex of current puestions in the relation the theatre-radio-drama. Wh>' is it so? We think that three groups of reasons can be distinguished; first of all, besides aesthetic, some other elements must be taken into account such as general cultural elements, for example; as the second, the presence of the theatre tradition in the drama programmes has both ”negative” and ”positive” meanings, including the fact that radio-drama was formed on the basis of the theatre experience, that it uses this experience in the process of its imminent development; as the third, permeating of radio-drama programmes and the theatre art cannot be removed mechanicallv, breaking the relationship between the programmes, what has its own dialectics, regardless the e\tent of current and justified repuirements to constantlv improve original radio-drama, Generai cultural motives, if we leave aesthetic aside (and if we do not leave them aside but understand and respect them as an integral part) bv themselves emphasize in indubitable and various wavs the need for such programme orientation which will encourage and improve both the cooperation between the radio and the theatre media and forms of permeating radio-drama and the theatre art