Robert Sturua’s Stage Production of "King Lear": Structure and Content
Mal'tseva Ol'ga Nikolaevna
Russian Institute of Art History
Submitted: 07.04.2020
Abstract. The article is devoted to the stage production of "King Lear" (1987. Shota Rustaveli Theatre. Tbilisi) by the internationally acclaimed director Robert Sturua. The work aims to show that critics interpreted the content of the production basing mainly on what was happening to the characters, i.e. essentially, on the play’s chain of events, not taking into account the structure of the stage play; it aims also to submit the author’s own interpretation of the stage production. As a result of the study, the analysis of the stage production’s composition has been conducted and its artistic content has been identified. The research is novel in that it is the first to study analytically one of the most prominent stage productions of the XX century. The findings will be of use to theatre theoreticians and practitioners and drama school teachers in lecture courses and seminar classes on history and theory of the drama theatre.
Key words and phrases: Роберт Стуруа, Уильям Шекспир, "Король Лир" Шекспира, Грузинский государственный академический театр имени Шота Руставели (Тбилиси), драматический театр, история и теория драматического театра, поэтика спектакля, Robert Sturua, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s "King Lear", Georgian State Academic Theatre named after Shota Rustaveli (Tbilisi), drama theatre, history and theory of drama theatre, poetics of stage production
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