The aim of this thesis is to discover and to sname the specific resources and procedures which were present at the birth of the theatre expressionism in our country. The first method used to find the solution to that was a compilation of the secondary literature followed by the method of analysis and comparison of the selected articles in the review Scéna review published between 1913 and 1914. Doing this research we have found out the main expressionist resource in the theatre was especially the stage economy, i. e. reducing decorations to the minimum, acting in unity, a simplicity and an utmost coordination of words and gestures. The greatest benefit of this work is exploring the period of the early expressionism as well as analysing the review Scéna which had a leading role in presenting modern drama then. Keywords Josef Kodíček, František Zavřel, the review Scéna, early expressionism, drama and theatre, avant-garde