HORROR AS A GENRE OF THE DRAMA PERFORMANCE: “BEFORE SUNSET” IN NOVOSIBIRSK THEATRE “OLD HOUSE”
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Information about authors: Fleenko Darya Alekseevna, PhD in Culturology, Associate Professor of Department of Theater History, Literature and Music, Novosibirsk State Theatre Institute (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: da-sdr1@ yandex.ru
Annotation: The article deals with an important trend of the modern theater directing to the expansion of genre boundaries. This expansion is associated with learning from other arts. Drama theatre in Russia of the beginning of the 21st century is interested in horror genre, which is traditionally related to cinema and literature. Increasingly, directors try to adapt the horror genre to theatrical language, read theatrical text using the horror’s optics. Interest of directors in this genre is associated with finding the new ways to display a tragedy in modern theatre. Appealing to this genre allows to provide new opportunities for creation of an atmosphere of an ambiguity, a concern and an existential fear on stage. The author argues that in a theatre a horror genre doesn’t have to be associated with a specific type of story but a director can force public to see in outwardly realistic story some terrifying connotation. The performance “Before Sunset” (by Gerhart Hauptmann) directed by Anton Malikov in Novosibirsk Drama Theatre “Old House” is an example of such work. The genre of the performance is defined by the director as a “conditionally mystical horror.” In this case an introduction element of horror into the intellectual drama is attempting to depart from social and politic interpretations and to show its tragic basis. The author notes orientation of performance to the first level of existence and perception of horror genre (on the classification of S. King). The director sought to present a story which has nothing outwardly disgusting in such way that a spectator in his imagination could have a percept of this story as a “quintessence of horror.” Appeal to the genre of horror is important for the director in his refleсtion of the nature of terrible as a part of human nature, as a result of unconscious breakthrough into everyday life.
Keywords: performance, horror, Gerhart Hauptmann, “Before Sunset,” theatre
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Information about authors: Fleenko Darya Alekseevna, PhD in Culturology, Associate Professor of Department of Theater History, Literature and Music, Novosibirsk State Theatre Institute (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: da-sdr1@ yandex.ru
Annotation: The article deals with an important trend of the modern theater directing to the expansion of genre boundaries. This expansion is associated with learning from other arts. Drama theatre in Russia of the beginning of the 21st century is interested in horror genre, which is traditionally related to cinema and literature. Increasingly, directors try to adapt the horror genre to theatrical language, read theatrical text using the horror’s optics. Interest of directors in this genre is associated with finding the new ways to display a tragedy in modern theatre. Appealing to this genre allows to provide new opportunities for creation of an atmosphere of an ambiguity, a concern and an existential fear on stage. The author argues that in a theatre a horror genre doesn’t have to be associated with a specific type of story but a director can force public to see in outwardly realistic story some terrifying connotation. The performance “Before Sunset” (by Gerhart Hauptmann) directed by Anton Malikov in Novosibirsk Drama Theatre “Old House” is an example of such work. The genre of the performance is defined by the director as a “conditionally mystical horror.” In this case an introduction element of horror into the intellectual drama is attempting to depart from social and politic interpretations and to show its tragic basis. The author notes orientation of performance to the first level of existence and perception of horror genre (on the classification of S. King). The director sought to present a story which has nothing outwardly disgusting in such way that a spectator in his imagination could have a percept of this story as a “quintessence of horror.” Appeal to the genre of horror is important for the director in his refleсtion of the nature of terrible as a part of human nature, as a result of unconscious breakthrough into everyday life.
Keywords: performance, horror, Gerhart Hauptmann, “Before Sunset,” theatre
