Theory of game structures of Anatoly Vasilyev: methodology and aesthetics

The article considers the creative work of Anatoly Vasilyev as a completely new artistic and poetic environment, the main role in which is played by the “school-laboratory-theatre" conception. Vasiliev intuitively opened a very important problem of correlation between theatre experiences and theatre performances. The main achievement of the creative research of A. Vasilyev has become a theory of game structures, which is still being developed and improved by the artist.