Performing Culture: New Strategies of Staging Lithuanian Drama
Performing Culture: New Strategies of Staging Lithuanian Drama

Summary/Abstract: Lithuanian theatre of the last decades has experienced a lot of changes, especially in the most important elements of theatrical performance: the text, the actor and the audience. The change of theatre's status in society suggests not only the redundancy of theatre in contemporary Lithuanian society, but also a considerable shift in the function of its aesthetics. In this article the emerging themes of contemporary Lithuanian theatre will be analysed, with special attention to recent developments that can be conceptualized as new textuality, by which Lithuanian theatre tries to articulate its own condition as well as the conditions of society and culture in transition. The new forms of representation in Lithuanian theatre are closely linked to tradition as well as various influences from outside, which, in turn, form the hybrid character of contemporary performances.

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