The purpose of study 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』 is regarding aesthetic, philosophical analysis and searching for incite of map of Russian play and the trend of global play also looking into what makes the directing metho ...
The purpose of study 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』 is regarding aesthetic, philosophical analysis and searching for incite of map of Russian play and the trend of global play also looking into what makes the directing methodology go beyond artistic layout and development of play history.
This 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』 is the follow-up study of my own study 『Modern Russia Theater directing methodology』. 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』 is the description work of directors’ directing methodology after 1970, after the death of J.V.Stalin. The subject of this study is work of early to mid-20th century directors who are the mentor of 18 directors from previous study.
The major contents of 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』 is begin from 1st generation director, representative of Stanislavsky,Danchenko, and not only 2nd generation directors - Meierkhol’d, Vakhtangov, Evreinov, and also 3rd generation directors Tairov, Efros, Tovstonogov, and Efremov. 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation means for the convenience of phase of progress in history, however they all share same play era and they are all politicians as well as philosophers to speak the truth of Contemporary. I as a researcher, show diachronic view of 100 years of play history of Russia, and understanding aesthetic of global play philosophical reason through work of great directors who were in the spot light of last century’s is the purpose of this study.
This research is historicizing the innovation and experiments of 20th century play based on many of major plays from 20th century. ‘Directing methodology’ begin with identifying the philosophical and aesthetic world from work of each directors can be the example of representing play history of certain generation.
This research, 『History of Russia Theatre directors in the 20th century』, go through 5 detailed phases. 1st phase - Analysis of preceding research and critical history, 2nd phase - Selection of works, 3rd phase - Restoration of stage based on dramaturgic approach, 4th phase - Studying a historical theatrical context in terms of each director, and 5th phase - Locating - making a spectrum. Analysis of preceding research and critical history is on the subject of researching and critical history of work of each directors. On the phase of Selection of work, selecting criticizing subject of work of each directors. Restoration of stage based on dramaturgical approach is about not only analyzing of work and also stage and stage costume, scene direction and the respond of the audience as well by observing the reconstructed the environment of play of the time. 4th phase - Studying a historical theatrical context in terms of each director, and 5th phase - Locating - making a spectrum are on the subject of what the contents of the conversation of directors were and how the directors kept their own method of their conversation.