Sceninio herojaus kaita lietuvių teatre po 1990-ųjų: Rimo Tumino „Edipas karalius“
The shift of the scenic hero in Lithuanian theatre after 1990: “Oedipus the King” by Rimas Tuminas

Summary/Abstract: Having in mind the new expectations of the audience and the shift of the theatre towards entertaining performance, the author of the article stresses the birth of new tragic hero, which concretizes the state of loneliness in his “non-tragic” surrounding. The article is based on the performance “Oedipus the King” directed by Rimas Tuminas in the Lithuanian National drama Theatre in 1998. This production is very important in the artistic carrier of Rimas Tuminas because of the new interpretation of a classical hero, which reflects the new attitude to the contemporary theatre and its aims. “Oedipus the King” shows the endeavour of the director to recover the classical, traditional values and at the same time his fruitless efforts in the new artistic and theatrical reality. The author of the article applies to the terms of “epic theatre” and “epic subject”, stressing the shift of the directorial method of Tuminas towards the theatre-as-a-game principle, and highlights the appearance of the theatrical theme in his productions. This theme becomes the finalizing element of the “Oedipus the King”, which affects both the scenic dramaturgy and content of the performance. Noting the post-modern aesthetics of Tuminas’ direction, the author of the article stresses his reliance on the poetics of the plays of Anton Chekhov and summarizes that the scenic hero of Rimas Tuminas became lonely in the theatre, and this loneliness developed the tragic and farce-like elements of the performance in which the most important place was taken not by the protagonist of the play but by his environment.

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