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Пострежисьорският театър
Post-director‘s theatre

Author(s): Nikolay Yordanov
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The paper is seeking to highlight the new phenomena in theatrical life that do not need a director as the figure that has been categorically established in drama all along the twentieth century through a specific educational profile, a structure- defining and meaning-defining function in the process of staging, a secured place in public identification of a production. Over the last two or three decades, director, retaining director’s artistic function, has been increasingly abandoning the pretensions to be the sole author and the final authority when it comes to the meaning of a performance. Now director’s role is gradually changing: from a supreme arbiter of meanings and messages director is rather becoming an initiator and a facilitator of a collaborative process, a provoker of actions within the social and cultural domain or just a leader of a group of creative actors. This type of theatre has emerged step by step in Bulgaria too in the new century and the term ‘post-director’s theatre’ in this instance unites stage productions by artists coming from the area of performance art, contemporary dance, visual artists, people engaged in applied theatre, etc.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-26
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian