A modern theater: experiments over forms and content

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One of main features of the modern theater is considered to be its upgraded, democratic character and a sharp social orientation. Nowadays a theater in most cases has stopped being an art for the intellectual elite. In the opposite, it began to speak the language of the masses, lifting and enduring complex problems of the present. Today's theater has quite easily won the audience, and became a necessary part of our life, in many respects under the influence of fashion. However, it is the existing realty. Creators of modern performances have undertaken the obligations of the solution of the social tasks by means of esthetic receptions on the mental level. Possibly, many decisions in a theater world of art of "the new world" are dictated by an environment, but not a long time will pass and all alluvial will disappear, having left only what makes sense. And it will be an organic, real, trustworthy, and modern dramatic art. Some critics have noticed that Hamlet deep inside has already resolved an issue: "To be or not to be?..." to the advantage of «to be» long ago. Such an answer makes the creative pathos of upgraded theater which presents us new discoveries. The article's purpose. What makes «a modern theater» while being examined closer? Certainly, nowadays it is possible to see anything in the theater, except classical performances with traditional suits and scenery, not even speaking about a syllable and the drama. So-called "illustrative" performances were out of fashion long ago. The modern theater has been painfully looking for its unique language and we all have been witnessing it. It is necessary to classify "styles" of a modern theater to analyze viability of experiments. Materials and methods. While studying the interaction of arts synthesis with information technologies which became the unconditional trend of the present time, it gives us a chance to create new forms and contents of a spectacular art, putting a new sense and often reviving the lost. The Result. The diverse palette of new technologies gives the unlimited chance and freedom for the choice and creation of means of expressiveness. At the same time, main in theater are still an idea, deep sense and dramatic art, but they are focused on "the new viewer». Результат. Многообразная палитра новых технологий дает неограниченную возможность и свободу для выбора и создания средств выразительности. При этом, главными в театре по прежнему остаются идея, глубинный смысл и драматургия, но ориентированы они на «нового зрителя». Result. The diverse palette of new technologies gives the unlimited chance and freedom for the choice and creation of means of expressiveness. At the same time, an idea, deep sense and dramatic art are still the main features in theater but they are focused on "the new viewer".

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Theater, innovations, viewer, drama, performance, technologies, modern theater

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/14951694

IDR: 14951694   |   DOI: 10.17748/2075-9908-2017-9-3/1-139-145

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