Spektaklio tekstas – dramos (ne)tekstas
Text of the performance – non-text of drama

Summary/Abstract: The problem of relationship between performance and the text of drama is discussed in the article. This problem is being interpreted and analyzed since the very end of the 19th century when theatre started looking for its sources and roots, when vanguard theatre streams abolished the dependence of the scenic art on literature and word, and the performance acquired the status of independent work of art with its autonomous system of signs, and the literature basis started to be changed or even radically rejected. Although there are traditional theatres in the contemporary world as well, the post-modern, vanguard and anti-literature theatre is dominating in the international theatre festivals. It is being influenced by other artistic fields and supported by critics and producers of these festivals. Close to the traditional dramaturgy is the “new drama” – the kind of absurd drama, which influenced the birth and development of the new theatre. The relationship of both vanguard and traditional dramaturgy with contemporary theatre is complicated and needs a comprehensive observation and analysis. The Lithuanian theatre of the 21st century, absorbing many features of the vanguard and post-modern theatre, often uses the dramaturgy for creating autonomous meanings of the performance and influences contemporary Lithuanian playwrights. The structure and verbal expression of contemporary plays is often being programmed as the raw material for the scenic work of art.

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