A New Generation of the Theatre Performance: Silver Screening as Cinematographization (Aleksandr Sozonov’s Staging of «The Picture of Dorian Gray» in Moscow Theatre named after M. N. Ermolova)

Alyona V. Sevasteyenko
Year: 2014
DOI:
UDK: 792
Pages: 149-164
Language: russian
Section: The world of Culture: subjects, institutions, practices
Keywords: absurd drama, avant-garde theatre, virtual reality, the imaginary, imagination, dream, duplicity, catharsis, cinematographization, Theatre of Cruelty, mimesis, myth, oneiric space, performance, transgression, transformation, screen version.
Abstract
A philosophical vision of the theatre performance (as the screen version and consequently the cinematic transformation of a script) has been presented in the article. The example of this new theatre performance is Moscow Ermolova Theatre «The Picture of Dorian Gray» stage version produced by a young stage director Aleksandr Sozonov with the help of the theatre’s artistic director Oleg Men’shikov in 2013.
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