ECLECTICISM OF “MULTIAGENT EFFECTS” IN THE INTERPRETATIONS OF SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDIES BY THE DIRECTOR E. NEKROŠIUS

• Main Author: Iryna Ivashchenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts 2019-12-01
• Series: Вісник КНУКіМ: Серія Мистецтвознавство
• Subjects: е. някрошюс; театральна режисура; інтерпретація; еклектика; драматургія в. шекспіра
• Online Access: http://arts-series-knukim.pp.ua/article/view/188641
• ISSN: 2410-1176; 2616-4183

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the interpretation of W. Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet (1997), Macbeth (1999) and Othello (2000) by director E. Nekrošius, as well as to analyse the features of his creative methods and techniques. The research methodology. An interdisciplinary approach and the following scientific methods were applied. Typological-structural method is to structure the basic principles of synergies between peculiar elements of the director’s tools of E. Nekrošius; the method of art history analysis is to identify the specifics of the main components of the directorial activity of E. Nekrošius, as well as to determine his contribution to the development of contemporary European theatre art; a method of artistic and compositional analysis of stage works is to justify the relationship between the director and the author of a dramatic work in the context of the formation of an artistic and integral canvas of a dramatic performance and other. Scientific novelty. The features of the techniques and methods for E. Nekrošius’s directing have been determined on the basis of the art criticism analysis of the plays Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello by W. Shakespeare; the unique and ambiguous use of metaphors and symbols by the director has been described. The specificity of innovative concepts and traditional methods of theatre directing by E. Nekrošius has been revealed; the structure and levels of scenic imagery in the interpretations of Shakespearean tragedies in the context of the transformation of the expressive means of theatre directing were examined and analysed; an art historical analysis of the elements of directorial expressiveness used by E. Nekrošius was carried out in the process of their transformation into compositional poetical and formative means. Conclusions. The director’s interpretation of the Shakespearean tragedies Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello by E. Nekrošius testifies to the dominance of his fundamental principle of creativity – the ability to convincingly and symbolically represent the relationship between ethnic Lithuanian and world culture, positioning contact with the dramatic text of W. Shakespeare as the most important factor. In the creative activity of E. Nekrošius, the symbolic in the object prevails over the word. The metaphors with which the director constructs a complex space of performances are ambiguous, they undergo a variety of interpretations and levels of reading. The same symbols and signs are constantly presented to the viewer with different perspectives. Each object on the stage is a sign and symbol, meaning holder.