Directing concept as a way to create a figurative system of performance

Abstract

Purpose of the Article. Publication of new approaches in the mode of work on literary texts to create concepts for future performances. The methodology is used in the application of analytical, empirical, art history, formal-analytical and system-analytical methods in the analysis of theoretical works and established features of artistic phenomena. The scientific novelty of the study is an attempt to use the term "concept of performance" to denote a specific transition from the analysis of literary texts to the search for the parameters of the idea, which ends with the creation of a new version of the play by adapting or updating. This is a conditional boundary between the pre-rehearsal and rehearsal periods when the director proceeds to test the concepts in practice during rehearsals. Identifying the influence of post-dramatic aesthetics on the modern theatrical process of Ukraine in the use of documentary texts to create a figurative system of performance, outlining the characteristics of post-dramatic theater in modern stage readings. Conclusions. The director's work on the idea of ​​the future play is a unique process that is constantly in the spotlight of researchers of performing arts. From the beginning of the XXI century. we can observe a gradual change of the classical theatrical paradigm and the influence of the aesthetics of post-dramatic theater on the theatrical process in Ukraine. Gone are the days when the drama was considered the unalterable basis of a future play, and the theater was only an illustrator of literature. Today, the director is a full-fledged author of the play, embodies on stage his very subjective understanding of dramatic texts, given their relevance to the problems of modern life. The article attempts to identify and outline new trends in the approach to creating the concept of performance is based on analysis and creative rethinking of literary texts, to return this term to the theatrical lexicon for the most meaningful transfer of the specifics of the process of birth and finding ways to implement it with the team theater.