2013 ¹1

Theme of the Issue:
The volume’s theme can be formulated as an attempt to define, perhaps the central question of modern theatrology and theatre criticism: what is now «the theatre as such», what are its goals and objectives in the face of challenges imposed by the features of today's social and cultural process? In the «New Theatre, Old Stage» section both practicians and theorists are trying to think about the future of Russian performing art in light of the upcoming reforms. The section «In Disputes over Repertory Theatre» presents a wide range of opinions of Russian and foreign experts about the right to be called «repertory theatre», and how today's usage of the term correlates with its historical understanding, and how European repertory theatres are constituted (especially considered in detail the question of what they borrowed from the Russian model, and what deviated from it). Significant space in the body of the volume’s articles is attributed to the materials revealing the theatre life of the Russian province. Of the scale of problems it is highlighted the question of the spectator: the relationship between theatre and audience is considered on the examples of Norilsk, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk cities. The section «Theatre Diary» presents productions of the leading directors of today: R. Tuminas, Y. Butusov, A. Borodin, etc. The problem of modern drama and its main trends are analyzed on the material of plays by Nikolay Kolyada and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.

Contributors
Summary

PRO PRESENT

INSIDE THE SYSTEM. TO THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONSTANTINE STANISLAVSKY

Yelena Gorfunkel. Tovstonogov’s Method and its Source of Inspiration

OLD THEATRE, NEW STAGE

Klim. Theatre and Reforms

Marina Zabolotnyaya. Let us talk about love strangeness

Yelena Gorfunkel. Petrushevtsy and Kolyadovshchina

Irina Lychagina. Theatre: a Public Offices or a Service

Ludmila Bakshi. Era of change (Thoughts about)

DISCUSSING THE FATES OF REPERTORY THEATRE

Vadim Shcherbakov. A glance at the widely discussed problem and something historical on a matter

The Cues from Seats

Olga Fedianina. The organizational forms and structure of the contemporary German Theatre

Alexey Bartoshevich. How it works in Britain

Beatrice Picon-Vallin. Do you say it becomes antiquated?

PROVINCE

Alexander A. Vislov. Peripheral Device-2

Vladimir Speshkov. More and less than a theatre. Theatre life in Cheliabinsk before meteorite’s fall and after.

Valentina Fiodorova. Ostrovsky in The Ostovsky’s House

BOOKSHELF

Ilya Smirnov. A Minstrels’ Patron

Marina Tokareva. «An every idiot can scold out…»

THEATRE JOURNAL

Vera Maksimova. A Grand Production

Vadim Shcherbakov. A yell and whisper of inquire

Ella Mikhaliova. «An Ideal Husband» in social network’s format

Natalia Kaminskaya. A Feminine Face of a Tragedy

Nikolai Pesochinsky. «Macbeth» and Yuri Butusov: a Postdramatic movie

Vera Senkina. In Search of Present time

Marina Tokareva. GenAcide in Bol’shye Ushchery

Vera Senkina. Death as a trick

PERSONAE

Eduard Kochergin. Who are you, Boris Ravenskih?

Marina Dmitrevskaya. Forming of Rezo Gabriadze’s artistic universe

Marina Tokareva. Fomenko

AROUND PUSHKIN

Marina Timasheva. Pushkin is our complete integrity; even if he does not belong to us

Natalia Skorokhod. «Peak lady» (Pikovaya Dama): in search of the theatre genre