Naratyvinės strategijos šiuolaikiniame Lietuvos teatre. Epizacijos / rapsodizacijos technika
Narrative strategies in contemporary Lithuanian theatre. Technique of episation / rhapsodisation

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the strategies of the contemporary Lithuanian theatre destroying narrative construction of the scenic action. With the help of examples of Lithuanian and foreign theatre the technique of episation / rhapsodisation is being distinguished. This technique replaces the traditional conception of action and representation by the act of performative statement and develops the montage-based structure of the performance. One could hardly find real examples of post-dramatic theatre in Lithuania. But there are plenty of its elements in the performances where the interpretation of dramatic or literary text is no longer the main goal of the director and actors. Interpretation becomes the creation of the complicate scenic discourse, introducing several devices of (re)presentation: media, live music. These devices become equal and sometimes even more important than the acting or narrative story. Looking at the tendencies of the interpretative direction, the technique of episation / rhapsodisation could be distinguished as the most distinct strategies. This technique, characteristic of the poetics of new drama, encourages theatre directors to employ this technique while producing classical plays. Episation presupposes the dialectic of narration and performance, delivery and representation, which assumes the function of dramatic and scenic action. The performance becomes an open structure, and the element of improvisation is being actualised. The act of delivery and / or performance, free from the duty of the “recreation” of the plot, influences the changes of scenic design and acting. The scenic narrative / discourse based by the intensive, dynamic technique of montage, provokes new competences of the spectators’ reception – during the performance they cease being passive listeners of the extraneous tales and become active creators of their own stories.

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